So, I was posting a reply to a journal when it produced this:


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Now, here's the thing: If you go to edit you'll see that this actually only has FOUR space indents. Yet somehow that indent became EIGHT spaces...CONDITIONALLY. The actual reply is here, and the first indent WAS originally only four spaces, but after I edited it for quoting in this thread (without saving changes) it changed it to EIGHT spaces as well.

Now, we're a software development (with a focus on game development) website. So how hard is it for us to come up with a decent CODE/SOURCE box that actually, you know, works. By works I mean: When you paste code into it doesn't randomly remove or insert new spaces, newlines, and the color coding doesn't magically stay when you go to raw mode. Oh... and half your source doesn't magically vanish every time you click the "Raw" toggle switch on the WYSIWYG editor for posts.

Thoughts?

I've already posted a gripe of mine with the editor. It also drives me nuts when someone copies and pastes some code, but the editor tries to preserve its rich text formatting, and then you end up with a post like this.

Oh yes, I've taken to pasting in notepad, then copying from there, THEN pasting to the forums to make sure visual studio formatting doesn't end up getting pasted. Interestingly though, it only happens SOME of the time.

Oh yes, I've taken to pasting in notepad, then copying from there, THEN pasting to the forums to make sure visual studio formatting doesn't end up getting pasted. Interestingly though, it only happens SOME of the time.

It happens enough that I just instinctively toggle to 'raw' mode when pasting source. Mind you, I have to do the same for WordPress' syntax colouring plugin, so I guess it doesn't bother me all that much.

yeah it's a pain. Same here. Pasted some code earlier and it garbled it so I pasted in notepad then into their editor. Also having both [ code] and [ source] tags is fun.

I find Chrome's "paste as plain text" alleviates this to some degree. It is still annoying if you forget, and up to recently my Linux install of Chrome didn't have this feature.

I also find it annoying that copying and pasting text from someone else's post is in a different font to the message builder.

I agree completely, Washu. Recently the up time for GDNet has been pretty good and everything seems pretty solid except the text editor and source tags. These two things are the only gripes I've had recently but it's still pretty annoying.

Yeah, what's up with source tags? I can't figure out how to specify a language so that there's syntax highlighting.

And yes to what SteveDeFacto said about uptime: it's been a lot better lately!

Just saw a fun one. Washu's post. Notice fastcall22's '&' got turned into &

I had a hell of a time with it with a post the other day, if I put the lang="cpp" part in the source tag, it would chew it all up. Trying to edit the post to fix it just seemed to make it even worse. Finally I discovered that without lang="cpp" it at least put it in a code box with line numbers. I tried with both Chrome and Firefox, and had varying degrees of problems with each. Given that posting code is pretty common on this site, I hope they get it fixed ASAP.