I've only ever used cut-n-pastse, but there are a few things that will help:
- Try to keep your line-length down at 70 or so, if possible. The <code> tag will handle clean wrapping of the lines for display, but that will reduce the wrapping, which will be easier to read.
- Using tool-of-choice, expand tabs out before copying into the paste-buffer. Depending on how the application (xterm, kterm, xemacs, etc.) interacts with your windowing environment, it may or may not do that automatically.
--rjray
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<musing>Wouldn't it be cool if there were an
(XML-RPC|SOAP) interface to posting and editing. Then
one could write wrappers which would let you edit and post
things using your-favourite-editor-here . . .
</musing>
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or even a "upload file" button on the submission forms,
with a little pulldown indicating if hte file contains
your complete post, or just some code that should be
wrapped in CODE tags and appended to what you type in
the browser.
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[prompt]# monkupload script.pl
perhaps? That would require having some kind of list of "pending" submissions somewhere I guess, so one could lay the final touches via a browser, as usual. I am only speculating here, but with some special markup possible in the uploaded file, it could be a nice feature...
Of course, I am quite happy enough with copy/paste, so I guess it is only my wish for more cool features in all situations that shows its ugly head again. :)
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That would be a great thing, but, supposedly, is very unlikely to be implemented, as it would force the developers to export all the very non-trivial PM interface via SOAP or whatever.
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For posting replies, what more needs to be exported other
than one routine that takes the parent node id, title, and text? The only other thing that'd be nice to have might be
a get_node() that returns the title, author, and body of said node (for throwing through supercite, of course :).
Conceptually I'm just looking for something along the lines of what pudge has working at Use Perl for the journal
system with slash. See this entry in pudge's journal. The two routines I imagine
are analagous to add_entry and get_entry there.
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You could just write a script with LWP::UserAgent that logs in and posts it.
-Lee
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