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Ope Rand
Alien
Join date: 14 Mar 2003
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04-21-2004 21:24
It would be sweet if we could have the ability to format chat and instant message output a little with \n. Anyone agree?
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Ama Omega
Lost Wanderer
Join date: 11 Dec 2002
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04-21-2004 21:35
It would have to be made clear that the text was a continuation of the previous line, for example indenting or something. Otherwise, yeah that could be cool. Would really help with script chat.
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Oz Spade
ReadsNoPostLongerThanHand
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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04-21-2004 22:33
This would be nice. Kinda dissapointed we can't se something like Ctlr+Enter to get new lines either. But thats a different topic.
I endorse this idea/feature.
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Strife Onizuka
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04-22-2004 04:36
would be nice 
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Ope Rand
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Join date: 14 Mar 2003
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04-22-2004 11:18
oh just for clarity i was thinking it would work something like, say the string to be output is: "blah1\nblah2"
the output would be:
<objectname> says: blah1
blah2
as opposed to:
<objectname> says: blah1
<objectname> says: blah2
as it currently works the only way to get a new line is to add enough spaces so that the next word wraps to the next line, but it seems nearly impossible to get it exactly right and line things up neatly in columns which is what i'd like to do.
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Tiger Crossing
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04-22-2004 13:04
The second line would have to be prefixed with your name or at least indented. Otherwise, someone could say: "Who's a cute little monkey?\n<Ope Rand> says: I am!!!" <Tiger Crossing> says: Who's a cute little monkey? <Ope Rand> says: I am!!!
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Ope Rand
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04-22-2004 14:10
lol! yeah good point  well then i guess the second version above would be just fine to get around that. doesnt really make much difference to me, i just want to be able to skip to the next line.
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Chromal Brodsky
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Join date: 24 Feb 2004
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04-22-2004 14:27
Yeah, it's all fun and games until somebody maps the following to a gesture hotkey: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n h4h4 OMG 1 0wnz03r th1$ ch47 edited to reflect a realistic number of newlines, based upon the chat character limitations. |
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Carnildo Greenacre
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Join date: 15 Nov 2003
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04-22-2004 14:40
That's a good deal more that the 128 newlines the chat will currently allow.
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Ope Rand
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04-22-2004 19:21
heh well spam is possible already without using newlines. i still think this would be more useful than it would be annoying.
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Jim Bunderfeld
The Coder
Join date: 1 Mar 2004
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04-23-2004 13:36
Wow ope that is a great idea!
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