Two quick things (I think):

wrapping : I'm not sure of what the current settings (or reasons for them) are; however, I find that there are several pages which require me to scroll far, far, far to the right just to read a line of normal text. (This was in some manual, I believe).

In general, I think the horizontal control on PM needs to be taken care of simply for ease of use.

search: here I would make a suggestion from E2 and that when someone does a search that instead of having the searched text remain in the search window, the text of the previous node will be replaced there, allowing for much easier navigation. (I realize one could use the backbutton....non-elegant.) Furthermore, it might lead to a possible use of soft links which I don't see as a half bad thing.

Yo. many ados.

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RE: wrapping and search
by BBQ (Curate) on Jun 26, 2000 at 04:48 UTC
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    I couldn't agree more on the wrapping issue!

    Nodes like Server Error Messages are very upsetting. I don't even feel like reading SOPW anymore (or the homenode for that matter) because these long unbreaked strings are really getting on my nerves! In the case of the node I just mentioned it was just plain HTML in his script that was going way too far! (and he even used "Comic Sans MS" in his font tags, which is a total waste of font formatting, but that's an entirely different topic)

    Why can't people use the <CODE> tags politely?? Is it too much too ask? Is it just ignorance? There is a preview button, so ignorance shouldn't be an excuse!

    I think it was merlyn that brought it up when this issue was posted before, saying that users should know when to break their code, but I haven't seen one single good use of long strings since I've been around. Maybe I'm being totally radical on this one, but if I had moderating delete previledges, I would have deleted that node instead of approving it.

    Sorry if I'm being rude, but I really had to get this one off my chest.
    </RANT>

    #!/home/bbq/bin/perl
    # Trust no1!
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      Perhaps a "Moderation/Edit" ability for high-level monks?

      I agree about the nastiness of horizontal scrolling. Many a time have I wanted to just add a few (obvious-but-missing) newlines to a post. Only high-level monks would be allowed to do such a thing (and perhaps there should be a non-suppressible message added when a post is edited).

      Kinda scary, but it would greatly improve the aesthetics of the site in certain instances...

      Russ

      P.S. Since merlyn is right (that only perl can correctly parse perl), this will most likely require human intervention.

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      The only moderation privileges are Frontpage and OK. The first approves a posting to appear in The Monastery Gates and the second approves it only to appear on the front page of the appropriate section (ie, Seekers of Perl Wisdom).

      Everything's available on Newest Nodes, which is probably where higher level monks look, judging from the response times.

      vroom's told those of us with that Power not to approve posts that need editing -- he'll take care of it. It would be nice to have another moderation option, perhaps Beautify. You could also make an Editor Request.

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RE: wrapping and search
by Aighearach (Initiate) on Jun 26, 2000 at 02:51 UTC
    I agree that the width is a problem, but a sollution requires much meditation, since it is the <CODE> blocks that usually cause it.

    You mean people actually use that search/back thing? I never use that kind of "back" functionality anyway, because it's not going "back," it's going forward to where you used to be, which is much slower than just going back to the already-downloaded page. 

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