C-x C-z March 10, 2009 9:14 PM Subscribe
HTML tag hotkeys?
This is a small pony, but I realized today that it would make me so very, very happy if there were shortcuts to the three HTML tag buttons at the bottom of comments. Maybe like Alt-b for bold, Alt-i for italic, and Alt-l for link.
This is a small pony, but I realized today that it would make me so very, very happy if there were shortcuts to the three HTML tag buttons at the bottom of comments. Maybe like Alt-b for bold, Alt-i for italic, and Alt-l for link.
Wow. That's awesome.
Guess the mods can close this, then. Thanks.
posted by koeselitz at 9:43 PM on March 10, 2009
Guess the mods can close this, then. Thanks.
posted by koeselitz at 9:43 PM on March 10, 2009
I have an ambition to one day fly in a hot air balloon.
Just thought this would be a good place to throw that out there.
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:51 PM on March 10, 2009 [3 favorites]
Just thought this would be a good place to throw that out there.
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:51 PM on March 10, 2009 [3 favorites]
"CTRL-SHIFT T"
Yep. Every time I re-open my last tab in Firefox, the MeFi page I'm on shoots down to the bottom and throws <em></em> in the comment box. (I know that "bug" has been addressed previously. not complainin', just sayin')
posted by niles at 9:54 PM on March 10, 2009
Yep. Every time I re-open my last tab in Firefox, the MeFi page I'm on shoots down to the bottom and throws <em></em> in the comment box. (I know that "bug" has been addressed previously. not complainin', just sayin')
posted by niles at 9:54 PM on March 10, 2009
Heh, so it does.
posted by dg at 12:33 AM on March 11, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by dg at 12:33 AM on March 11, 2009 [2 favorites]
That's why reopening last closed tab always behaves so weirdly in MeFi. Always wondered, never made the correlation, since I tend to have a whole bunch of tabs open and read them in sequence and only Ctrl-Shift-T if I accidentally close something...
posted by Phire at 1:03 AM on March 11, 2009
posted by Phire at 1:03 AM on March 11, 2009
Hey, that's awesome. T opens last tab, B opens bookmarks, and A opens a new tag with w3.org's validator site.
So I can't use those in here with FF, but it's good to know, I guess.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:58 AM on March 11, 2009
So I can't use those in here with FF, but it's good to know, I guess.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:58 AM on March 11, 2009
New *tab* goddamn it.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:58 AM on March 11, 2009
posted by middleclasstool at 7:58 AM on March 11, 2009
I have a button on my keyboard that I'm pretty sure will destroy the world. What random chances of fate conspired to put this terrible burden into my hands, I will never know, but I take it as my sacred duty to make certain that it is never pressed.
Oh sure, on my dark days, I stare at it, thinking about all the horrors that humanity has unleashed, the murder, the rape, the suffering... sometimes I think it would be better to just press it and put a stop to all the evil. But then I remind myself that while the power might be in my hands, it is not my choice to make.
I am simply here to protect the secret and make sure that no one knows that on my keyboard, on the right hand side, hidden amongst all the others, there is a key called "end".
I shake with terror every time I go to page down for fear that I will fat finger us all to death.
posted by quin at 9:09 AM on March 11, 2009 [4 favorites]
Oh sure, on my dark days, I stare at it, thinking about all the horrors that humanity has unleashed, the murder, the rape, the suffering... sometimes I think it would be better to just press it and put a stop to all the evil. But then I remind myself that while the power might be in my hands, it is not my choice to make.
I am simply here to protect the secret and make sure that no one knows that on my keyboard, on the right hand side, hidden amongst all the others, there is a key called "end".
I shake with terror every time I go to page down for fear that I will fat finger us all to death.
posted by quin at 9:09 AM on March 11, 2009 [4 favorites]
Whatever happened to <b> and <i>? Does the use of <strong> and <em> do anything besides inflating the size of every file they appear in?
posted by Sys Rq at 9:14 AM on March 11, 2009
posted by Sys Rq at 9:14 AM on March 11, 2009
I have a button on my keyboard that I'm pretty sure will destroy the world.
That's the CD-eject key, quin.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:33 AM on March 11, 2009
That's the CD-eject key, quin.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:33 AM on March 11, 2009
I use up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-start to post links.
posted by electroboy at 10:17 AM on March 11, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by electroboy at 10:17 AM on March 11, 2009 [1 favorite]
quin: I don't think anybody else has a key that takes them 'home', either. You just guard that little secret with your life, okay?
posted by koeselitz at 11:38 AM on March 11, 2009
posted by koeselitz at 11:38 AM on March 11, 2009
Whatever happened to [b] and [i]? Does the use of [strong] and [em] do anything besides inflating the size of every file they appear in?
My understanding is that it's all a part of the semantic web stuff. You know, don't use [b] to bold stuff, use [strong], because when we meet an alien civilization 100 years from now, they might use italics to emphasize things. With [strong], CthulhuFox v3.4 can simply turn it green, while us humanoids using FF/IE/whatever still see it as bold.
posted by niles at 2:13 PM on March 11, 2009
My understanding is that it's all a part of the semantic web stuff. You know, don't use [b] to bold stuff, use [strong], because when we meet an alien civilization 100 years from now, they might use italics to emphasize things. With [strong], CthulhuFox v3.4 can simply turn it green, while us humanoids using FF/IE/whatever still see it as bold.
posted by niles at 2:13 PM on March 11, 2009
I use up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-start to post links.
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha - Thrust!
posted by GuyZero at 2:21 PM on March 11, 2009 [2 favorites]
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha - Thrust!
posted by GuyZero at 2:21 PM on March 11, 2009 [2 favorites]
Whatever happened to [b] and [i]? Does the use of [strong] and [em] do anything besides inflating the size of every file they appear in?
Here's a discussion of both why this exists, and why it is kind of lame in practice.
posted by ocherdraco at 8:16 AM on March 13, 2009
Here's a discussion of both why this exists, and why it is kind of lame in practice.
posted by ocherdraco at 8:16 AM on March 13, 2009
That's...interesting. I guess I kind of get the reasoning behind it: You could have a block of bold (b tag), and then some bold used for emphasis elsewhere (strong tag), so you can change the way you've shown that emphasis without affecting the block of bold. That makes sense.
But, like, um: The buttons under this box I'm typing into are labeled B for "strong" and I for "em." That is weird.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:49 PM on March 13, 2009
But, like, um: The buttons under this box I'm typing into are labeled B for "strong" and I for "em." That is weird.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:49 PM on March 13, 2009
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