Forum Short-hand With "Texter"

I saw a Lifehacker productivity post that mentioned "Texter" and it reminded me that I planned to talk about it. This is otherwise known as the forum ***'s best friend. lol Here is a video that will give you a basic idea of what this is: Lifehacker Code: Texter for Windows




You assign a "hotstring"/"trigger" and a method of triggering your text or script and when Texter catches it, voila, it does whatever you've assigned it to do. Scripting is a little advanced so I'll cover that another time probably, but text replacement is all you really need for basic writing and forum tasks. If you do any HTML or CSS coding, this van be freaking invaluable as well.

To start I'll just give some examples of practical uses. I originally started using this for posting attendance on past linkshell websites that used BBcode, here was what I used:




The trigger I set for this "hotstring" was the tab key as seen in the picture, meaning when I typed "img" followed by pressing the tab key, the stuff listed as text was immediately spit back out.

Here are some more forum-oriented examples (along with some short-cuts which I'll explain afterwards):




*when you see the "%c" and "%|" strings, they simply stand-in as another level of text-replacement. %c means to paste the contents of the clipboard, meaning whatever I recently copied, and %| tells Texter where to put my cursor after it completes the text replacement. The same thing could be done through a script in Texter (which is probably exactly what was done by the developer) but this is just a much more simple method.

Taking that explanation into account, it's not difficult to see what these hotstrings do now. If we use "img" as an example, suppose I copy the url of a picture I want to post, when I put my cursor into the post box, all I need to do is type "img" and then press tab and my code is written out along with the link I just copied put into place. Same deal with the others. This can also be used for general HTML write-up because you can easily create a skeleton HTML page in Texter with your tags and proper syntax, streamlining the process for every future case. You're doing it once anyway, may as well make it count. I liked to think of it as Spellcast for the internets. haha Hope someone gets some use out of this!

PS. For more in-depth and advanced use, see the link above for the author's words and more videos!

I also use this one for youtube and will just write-out a sample one for the new forum code itemset:


As mentioned "%c" copying the contents of whatever you've copied to your clipboard into that space. Nice way of skipping writing out tags if nothing else.

I think I broke something. lol

ohhhhhhhhhhh you in trouble!

Does the 2nd or 3rd post look wrong to you too, Ludo? D;

All up in yer forums, breakin yer ***!

What the hell Caiyuo! :P

and yeh the top one is thinner than the ones underneath, and theres an equipment macro thingy under the OP lol

Edit: you fixed it o..o

Okay so, lesson learned: do not leave empty tags or write non-sense between them or ***explodes.

Thanks, -7, hoped it wasn't just me. lol I thiiiiink I fixed it, hopefully.

you can use

Code:

[code]

[/code]

for showing BBcode. It's not styled but it works.

Awesome, I'll just throw the code tags into quote tags to make them stand out. Thanks!

You don't have to do that. All I need to do is add some css.

Nice! Was going to say no biggie since it's more work, but it looks gooooood.

Nerd talk <3

:B

{I don't understand}

I'm gonna revise the OP with some pictures and such soonish. You aren't the only one to say so, Wardens. lol

Oops, dammit. I accidentally rated down Wardens' post trying to scroll up >_< Sorry!! ; ; Someone rate him up for me XD I feel bad.... :(

Revised OP for a hopefully better explanation. Also added piktors and vidyuz!

So you gonna hook me up so I can post while I'm on vacation?

you rated me down!!! ;_; /cry /cry /cry

thank you for rating me back up.... *sniffle*

I'M SORRY!! I didn't mean it Q_Q You may rate my posts down to your heart's content as revenge :o

Anyhoo~ I didn't get it at first (I thought it might be a new sort of coding Scragg hadn't yet implemented into the FFXIAH user interface), but after a bit of clarification it makes a ton of sense :D Nicely done, Cai! (^^)b

Thanks, glad it's starting to make sense! I re-read the original and hate seeming long-winded or rambling during an explanation so I chopped it up quite a bit. lol

Oops, found a minor error in the OP:

I'm pretty sure you meant "utube" as your hotstring. :)

OGDI

The WAR/WHM has become the PLD. ;_;

XDDDDD lulz, it's just a small error! Nothing to worry about; just something only my OCD self would notice, really. ;3

OH ITS BEEN REMEDIED. I refuse to settle for mediocrity unless it's in reference to my MSPaints.

And this is why I do all text editing work w/ MacOS... where I have access to tools like TextMate....