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eppur_se_muova

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21. If EarlG made an announcement, I missed it, but it now appears that what he has done if 'deactivate' HTML-to-special

Reply to Celerity (Reply #19)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 03:47 PM

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character conversion IN PREVIEW MODE -- which is actually something I'm glad to see, because it makes editing easier !! Next time I need to edit in HTML parens () in a URL I'll see if that is smoother now.

It's curious that the semicolon still functions as expected in Preview Mode, but not in posts. Maybe it makes sense in a way -- as in C programming and CLIs the ; closes a statement and the interpreter -- or whatever you call it -- takes it as an order to 'execute immediately', whereas leaving out the ; causes the conversion to be made only when other users' browsers read the text -- or something like that. I'm hardly a 6.3, so not my area of expertise, just sad experience.

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