Re^2: Usernames in the chatterbox

I think the point is that if an entry in the CB looked like this:

[davido] Hey everyone, I'm talking in the CB.
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...instead of...

<davido> Hey everyone, I'm talking in the CB.
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...it would be easier for people to copy and paste my square-bracketed-linked-name into their CB replies, without having to find that pesky square bracket key.

Frankly, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me. It might take some getting used to from a visual perspective, but it would make pasting easier, and I can't think of anything it breaks, except (maybe) some of the CB bots like im2.

Dave

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Re^3: Usernames in the chatterbox by castaway (Parson) on Dec 31, 2004 at 14:13 UTC
Yup, I knew what was meant, I just recalled that holli is in germany, and thus probably has a german layout. (For them not in the know, on a german layout, the square brackets are alt-gr+8 and alt-gr+9 respectively (thats right-alt key).. Which is a pain to type often.. I'm not quite sure how it would bother im2 or similar, since the XML used in the tickers doesnt contain any of such. C.	[reply]
Re^4: Usernames in the chatterbox by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 01, 2005 at 21:48 UTC
That's why I switched to an English layout with some umlauts mapped into it. I need those much more seldomly than I need all that punctuation. One of these days I'll read the material available on XKB configuration and make this a proper, publishable X11 keymap. As for holli's idea, I quite like the proposition. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]