Smilies in posts

[bonkersbobcat]

For eveyone reading posts trying to figure this stuff out...

These boards convert certain sequences of characters into little graphic pictures or smilies. This is to try and put a new spin on old world emotes.

The problem is that in answering the really common question of "How do I get showeq out of CVS?" people frequently forget to tell the message board not to do this conversion.

So this means you may see this:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/seq
when the author had actually typed:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/seq
If you see a smiley face in the middle of a code example, you will want to convert the smiley into a colon followed by the letter "p".

For everyone posting...

Please either check the "disable smilies in post" option below the box where you type your post or put sections of code inside "code" tags so that the message board will treat your typing as text that should not be messed with. For example I used
[CODE ]export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/seq[/CODE ] in my above line (without the space between "CODE" and "]"), so that you could see the correct text.

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Edit: spelling