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Originally posted by Eljay
I'm assuming this is meant for code snippets pasted in rather than typing code in directly.

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'this' as in the original post or my post? In case of the latter, I meant typing code in directly.

Edit: I get it, you were referring to the first post. I guess I just didn't read it properly.

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Originally posted by Nathan
And add colour formatting if you're feeling in a good mood

And remove smilies out of anything in the code (ive requested this before)

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use noparse. I already had asked WDZ and he said there are times when you need highlighting in code tags and some people apparently want smileys too Anyway, you can noparse it when you want Its not a big deal

Also, 4 spaces is fine. Anything more than that would be too much imo

Tabs represent tab stops, not spaces, according to the ASCII standard. On Windows a tab stop is defined as 4 spaces, on some Unix systems it's 8.

Besides. To preserve tabs, 1 tab = 	 .

Of course, this only really works with Mono-spaced fonts.

When tabs are used in code text lines (which is what we're talking about here; not about switching controls or technical ascii standards or whatever other context), then the only purpose of them is to indend the codelines so they are better structured.

Doing this by spaces, preseving tab stops, or whatever else doesn't matter, even mono-spaced or variable spaced fonts doesn't matter, just as long as the codelines are indended. So I don't see no harm done in a simple replace of a tab character into a few spaces.

Code highlighting would be nice too, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon. Automatic enclosing with [noparse] and using the <pre> tag is going to be worse, since then we can not use any highlighting or formatting (eg: bold) ourselfs anymore, which is very important.

A simple replace of the tab character on the other hand is quite straightforward and easy to implement I think. And at least saves us from doing a manual ReplaceAll all the time when pasting code.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Code highlighting would be nice too, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon. Automatic enclosing with [noparse] and using the <pre> tag is going to be worse, since then we can not use any highlighting or formatting (eg: bold) ourselfs anymore, which is very important.

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Simple implemention of GeSHi would be suffice.

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For instance you could use:

[code=js][/code=js] or [code=php][/code=php] or [code=xml][/code=xml] and so on this will allow the forum to highlight different languages

Yeah ive seen GeSHi being used on a few forums(or at least GeSHi like). Its really good, its an easy way to show your code.

WDZ already said once he wouldnt use geshi (you know he'd want to go through the source code of that, fixing bugs and stuff ). But it is, indeed, a good idea.

WDZ, don't be lazy and fix the damn thing. I dont see the purpose of using the code tags if they still preserve smilies

wait... has anyone even seen WDZ around? o.0

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
wait... has anyone even seen WDZ around? o.0

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Nitro scared him off with his talks about MyBB upgrade

Well maybe he should implement it just for now until he upgrades the forums to the latest MyBB which supports it.