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Is there a preferred script, addon or method that someone has made to ease the use of blockquoting replies here on uso?

I've seen a few, but none of them appear to work:

• http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8713
• http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31242

TIA

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24464
A "Quote" link is added below users' gravatars.

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24464
A "Quote" link is added below users' gravatars.

Beautiful...a step in the right direction for me.

(moved requests to review)

Marti wrote:
(moved requests to review)

Alt+C appears to not work for selected text

javascript:window.addEventListener("keydown",function(e) {if(e.altKey)alert('alt key works');},false);

Clicked report spam just to try it

Allow me to quote myself too?

Allow quotation of selected mouse text only?

Luckily, there spam only gets reported if you confirm you want to report it. All reported spam get posted to this thread: Clicked report spam just to try it

Well that's no good. I can't really reply to a review, can I?

...maybe key codes are slightly different in linux.

I purposefully left out that. I don't really see the point of quoting yourself, but I'll reconsider it.

try this:
javascript:window.addEventListener("keydown",function(e) {if(e.altKey)alert('alt key works');},false);
and press the alt key.

location hack doesn't work in nix and a friend of mine told me that it didn't work on his mac either... so I'll need to test this via an actual user.js. (has to do with namespaces ;) )

I'll try making it a bookmarklet too... nope.. not workin as bookmarklet.

BUT... the KDE setting for the "Modifier Key" when restored back to Alt allows the bookmarklet to work... however I changed it to Meta because the Alt key interferes with Firefox operation on certain hot keys. Will retry the "Alt+C" with Alt modifier in KDE with your script...retried... Alt+C opens up about:config even with selected text.

location hack works fine on mac. can a script do the location hack in linux? because my script uses it.

spam goes to this thread: http://userscripts.org/topics/9?page=16 and I don't know why you didn't get a confirmation. error console?

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
location hack works fine on mac. can a script do the location hack in linux? because my script uses it.
spam goes to this thread: http://userscripts.org/topics/9?page=16 and I don't know why you didn't get a confirmation. error console?

Well I'll be getting my Mac here in a couple weeks hopefully... too much conflicting information that I receive by word of mouth. As far as an error in the console log...I do get one:

Error: Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIDOMXPathEvaluator.evaluate]
Source file: file:///~/.mozilla/firefox/{randomseed}.default/gm_scripts/userscripts_comments_fix/userscripts_comments_fix.user.js
Line: 169

Alt+C opens up about:config even with selected text.

baha! I know where that error is from lol. Thanks for making me aware of that.

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
Huh? all shortcuts when the cursor is inside the textbox should have been disabled.

I might have an addon that assigns Alt+C to that function... checking...Yup... Mr Tech Toolkit... it's my primo #1 amo addon and I'd rather not remove it or reassign it's "Hot Key". It's slowly coming back to me...this is partly the reason I tell KDE to use the Meta key instead of Alt for the modifier key. (so Firefox has use of the Alt key)

Having the mouse selection to blockquote would probably overcome some of keyboard trapping issues ;)

Marti wrote:
Having the mouse selection to blockquote would probably overcome some of keyboard trapping issues ;)

Marti wrote:

Source file: file:///~/.mozilla/firefox/{randomseed}.default/gm_scripts/userscripts_comments_fix

@sizzlemctwizzle
Let me see if I understand this correctly...

(moved here)

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
baha! I know where that error is from lol. Thanks for making me aware of that.

Testing on this comment (works on this part but not the sentence above it) instead of that comment ("Just uploaded the version with selection blockquoting."... this portion highlighted and fails.)

Seems there is a gremlin hiding in the process.

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
Just uploaded the version with selection blockquoting.

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
Edit: Just uploaded another version. Now if you highlight the text and click one of the links to the right of the textarea you can use the same shortcuts as the keyboard. I'm done for the night. Cheers.

Way kewl!!

Marti wrote:
Seems there is a gremlin hiding in the process.

Still Awesome! This will save myself and others a bunch of time. Thank you graciously!

Marti wrote:

sizzlemctwizzlewrote:
Edit: Just uploaded another version. Now if you highlight the text and click one of the links to the right of the textarea you can use the same shortcuts as the keyboard. I'm done for the night. Cheers.

Way kewl!!

Martiwrote:
Seems there is a gremlin hiding in the process.

And this appears to be fixered as well :) Awesome! This will save myself and others a bunch of time. Thank you graciously!

JoeSimmons wrote:
and it removes the link that lets you delete your post

JoeSimmons wrote:
it's great but it messes up http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8713

JoeSimmons wrote:
it removes the link that lets you delete your post

Marti wrote:
Looks like the "Red X" is gone too.

Marti wrote:
Breaks with selecting list elements to in this comment

Marti wrote:
Other than the missing "red items" they seem to coexist here on this system.

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
btw you don't have to open a reply topic to quote

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
Yeah I got rid of that on purpose since it's a little redundant

Marti wrote:
Now if I could just get uso to fix the textarea box from clipping the last couple of lines at the very end of a topic

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
That has always bothered me too so I have always lengthened the page a little.

Thanks.

P.S. Turns out it's the order of who's script get's run first... swapped them around and alien_scum's script reshows... still clips quite a bit with that one enabled... won't be using that one much till I get around to contacting the author.

Marti wrote:
Now if I could just get uso to fix the textarea box from clipping the last couple of lines at the very end of a topic (e.g. they are hidden by this reply to topic window and the clipping gets worse if both scripts are installed.)

On the Discussion tab of a script, picked a topic, opened edit post and then clicked Quote on someone elses reply... created a new reply

Marti wrote:
Turns out it's the order of who's script get's run first... swapped them around and alien_scum's script reshows

sizzlemctwizzle wrote:
Fixed. If you have an edit box open and click quote it appends it to the textarea and if you have a reply box open it appends it to that textarea.

Marti wrote there:
@Jesse
...

• Current page construct doesn't appear to allow any type of existing script to do blockquoting such as the script by sizzlemctwizzle

JoeSimmons wrote:
I have a style to make the reply box on the top of the screen if you want it. I also have a style to make it halfway transparent so you can read behind it.
http://userstyles.org/styles/14472
http://userstyles.org/styles/16398

P.S. Making it partially visible (transparency) is nice, but for selection quoting, the page must be lengthened to select the hidden text.