Shovel
Can't get enough of FH
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Any chance of having Textile formatting support hacked into the forums? BBCode is all very well, but it's a tad cumbersome.
Textile is an agile and intuitive shorthand for formatting that would be lovely to have, and as best I can determine, wouldn't interfere with BBCode for those who die by that.
There's a Textile example at Textism for those who've never come across it.
I don't know of a specific hack for vB, but as I understood it the vB hacks repository is a closed, members only affair anyway, isn't it?
Examples of textile:
Basically, it's a much cleaner and tidier syntax. Two characters for bold rather than 6. Lists ‘just happen’ rather than needing a [
Textile is an agile and intuitive shorthand for formatting that would be lovely to have, and as best I can determine, wouldn't interfere with BBCode for those who die by that.
There's a Textile example at Textism for those who've never come across it.
I don't know of a specific hack for vB, but as I understood it the vB hacks repository is a closed, members only affair anyway, isn't it?
Examples of textile:
Code:
*bold*
_italics_
"A link somewhere":http://somewhere.com
* A
* List
* With
* Bullets
# A Numeric
# ListBasically, it's a much cleaner and tidier syntax. Two characters for bold rather than 6. Lists ‘just happen’ rather than needing a [
- ] wrapper around it.
