I modified my local copy of FrameChat2 (v. 2.04) to use the <c></c> shortcut for <code></code> tags. Below is the diff (`diff -u framechat.pl framechat.pl.ori` - the unmodified version being named framechat.pl.ori). I cannot recall, though, if I had modified it previously in a way that would result in differing line numbers. Thought maybe it might prove helpful to someone, though.

--- framechat.pl.ori    Sat Jun 11 16:41:08 2005
+++ framechat.pl    Sat Jun 11 17:41:16 2005
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
 '[http://] ',
 '[ftp://] ',
 '<code>&lt;/code> ',
+'<c>&lt;/c> ',
 '<tt></tt> ',
 '<a href=""></a> ',
 '/ignore ',
@@ -912,6 +913,8 @@
 
  $content=~s/<code>(.*?)<\/code>/codefix($1)/eig; # encodes the code 
+and changes pairs of balanced 'code' tags to 'ccc'
  $content=~s/(<\/?code>)/encode_entities($1)/eig; # nuke unbalanced c
+ode tags
+ $content=~s/<c>(.*?)<\/c>/codefix($1)/eig; # encodes the c tag and c
+hanges pairs of balanced 'c' tags to 'ccc'
+ $content=~s/(<\/?c>)/encode_entities($1)/eig; # nuke unbalanced c ta
+gs
  $content=~s/<ccc>/<code>/ig;                     # restore <ccc>
  $content=~s/<\/ccc>/<\/code>/ig;                 # restore </ccc>
 
@@ -967,10 +970,10 @@
  }
 
 if(($i{'n'} && $i{'n'} =~ /^hist|(?:view|search) history$/) || $i{'hi
+stbyauth'}){
- $content=~s/(<(?!(a\s|tt>|code>|i>|\/a>|\/tt>|\/code>|\/i>)))/encode
+_entities($1)/eig; # only allow a, tt, i & code tags 
+ $content=~s/(<(?!(a\s|tt>|code>|c>|i>|\/a>|\/tt>|\/code>|\/c>|\/i>))
+)/encode_entities($1)/eig; # only allow a, tt, i & code/c tags 
  }
 else{
- $content=~s/(<(?!(a\s|tt>|code>|\/a>|\/tt>|\/code>)))/encode_entitie
+s($1)/eig; # or only allow a, tt & code tags 
+ $content=~s/(<(?!(a\s|tt>|code>|c>|\/a>|\/tt>|\/code>|\/c>)))/encode
+_entities($1)/eig; # or only allow a, tt & code/c tags 
 }
 return $content;
 }
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I know there's a chance this would be seen as creature freep, but can we please also have a <pc>...</pc> tag that means <p><code>...</code></p>? I do that a lot!

You can already do something similar that with less typing - even if I've to admit that you don't get full <p> tags.

Here comes a EMBEDDED <c> tag; but if I put a

NEWLINE
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, like

some non-code text <c><<NEWLINE HERE>>
Code text here</c> other text, in another paragraph...
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it seems to understand me!

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

If you do that (not including a newline inside the code tags), it means that your code doesn't wrap as effectively and it gets downloaded as a comment.

If you instead, as frodo72 notes, include a newline inside of the code tags (for example, at the start and/or the end of the code), then the displayed code will be enclosed in P or PRE tags, depending on the viewer's settings. Wrapping your own P tags around such shouldn't be done.

- tye        

Thanks. Is this documented?