"Autotagging"?

edited September 2004 in Community
Often (due to my own laziness and/or haste) I tend to write a word in a paragraph on this forum in ALL CAPS, when the effect I was going for would be better represented by italicizing the word.

Would there be any way to have words in all caps be automatically reformatted in lower case and the [ i] & [ /i] tags placed around them? It'd be really, really handy.

And, for those who don't want it, a checkbox could be placed in the posting options, which could turn this on and off (like the "Disable smilies in text" box).

Comments

  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    It can be done but the practically of rewriting the parser to do such a function (and not make mistakes with other users posts) is not really an option.

    It would take quite a bit of work to rewrite core parts of the bbcode to allow this which I don't honestly feel is worth it as a "feature".

    Sorry :)
  • edited September 2004
    :doh:

    /me goes off to start a signature petition!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Go for your life ;)

    What you have to understand is that there are over 500 lines of code in that multi pass parser. If you want to learn advanced PHP.. including full regular expressions.. and then rewrite it to include your function..

    .... oh and make it Vbulletin compliant..

    Go right ahead :D
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