Bug in the bulletin board

[swerdna]

I have noticed that the current bulletin board software places a space in some words when a segment of text is enclosed in quotes, like this segment form a post I made elsewhere:

//192.168.1.8/music /home/yourname/winmusic cifs
username=billybob,password=billybob_password,_netd ev,uid=yourname,gid=users 0 0

The word "_netdev" appears erroneously as "_netd ev". This is very misleading and if the person I was advising used the code as it appears in the quotation, the code would not work.

This is not an isolated instance associated only with the word _netdev. It seems to me that it occurs fairly often and seems to me to attach itself to words at random.

The remedy seems to be to rearrange the words by editing the text. This is not practicable if you are quoting code, because code can't be rearranged in 99% of cases. The only remedy then is to place a footnote explaining to reader/s to be careful of the typo introduced erroneously by the bulletin board.

Here's an example in real life:
Accessing some win machines - openSUSE Forums

FWIW

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by swerdna

I have noticed that the current bulletin board software places a space
in some words when a segment of text is enclosed in quotes, like this
segment form a post I made elsewhere:

> //192.168.1.8/music /home/yourname/winmusic cifs
> username=billybob,password=billybob_password,_netd ev,uid=yourname,gid=users
> 0 0

The word "_netdev" appears erroneously as "_netd ev". This is very
misleading and if the person I was advising used the code as it appears
in the quotation, the code would not work.

This is not an isolated instance associated only with the word _netdev.
It seems to me that it occurs fairly often and seems to me to attach
itself to words at random.

The remedy seems to be to rearrange the words by editing the text. This
is not practicable if you are quoting code, because code can't be
rearranged in 99% of cases. The only remedy then is to place a footnote
explaining to reader/s to be careful of the typo introduced erroneously
by the bulletin board.

FWIW

Hi
What happens if you use the "code" wrapper rather than the "quote"
wrapper?

//192.168.1.8/music /home/yourname/winmusic cifs
username=billybob,password=billybob_password,_netdev,uid=yourname,gid=users
0 0

BTW, it all shows up ok via nntp.

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[swerdna]

Originally Posted by malcolmlewis

Hi
What happens if you use the "code" wrapper rather than the "quote"
wrapper?

//192.168.1.8/music /home/yourname/winmusic cifs
username=billybob,password=billybob_password,_netdev,uid=yourname,gid=users
0 0

BTW, it all shows up ok via nntp.

--
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 3:41, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.29, 0.30
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

With the code wrapper I get like this:

//192.168.1.8/music /home/yourname/winmusic cifs
username=billybob,password=billybob_password,_netdev,uid=yourname,gid=users 0 0

Which is excellent result, thanks. As a modaerator, it still concerns me. There are many newbies to the board who (like me) just wrap without looking. I'm happy for my own usage now, thanks to you. But they will still get the errors. So I'll leave this thread as a warning FWIW.

[kgroneman]

swerdna,

> Which is excellent result, thanks. As a modaerator, it still concerns
> me. There are many newbies to the board who (like me) just wrap without
> looking. I'm happy for my own usage now, thanks to you. But they will
> still get the errors. So I'll leave this thread as a warning FWIW.

FYI I looked into BBCODE (which vB uses here) and what I found doesn't
address this issue specifically, but it kind of does in general. The QUOTE
tags apparently can do some formatting of the information inside
them. If you want something displayed exactly as you typed it, you should
use CODE tags.

[swerdna]

Originally Posted by kgroneman

swerdna,

> Which is excellent result, thanks. As a modaerator, it still concerns
> me. There are many newbies to the board who (like me) just wrap without
> looking. I'm happy for my own usage now, thanks to you. But they will
> still get the errors. So I'll leave this thread as a warning FWIW.

FYI I looked into BBCODE (which vB uses here) and what I found doesn't
address this issue specifically, but it kind of does in general. The QUOTE
tags apparently can do some formatting of the information inside
them. If you want something displayed exactly as you typed it, you should
use CODE tags.

Thankyou. In the future I will w rap wit hmo reca uti on