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Reply form: terrible formatting.
1 point by tx on June 15, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


I wonder why I have such limited formatting options in the "Reply" form (the one I'm writing this in right now). I can't even break my own lines. For instance if I want to make a few points/suggestions while replying to someone, I can't start them with new lines, like this: - 1st line - 2nd line - 3rd line (they'll show up all in a row)

Should be as simple as replacing /n with <BR>


I'm gradually going to support more markdown. I don't have libraries for this stuff...


Can we have a taller text area before then. There's little visibility of context. I end up using a Firefox extension to hotlink it into vi for more complex posts.


One up for markdown.




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