If you have unread posts. It's when I want to go back to a thread I've read, to post in it, that I'm getting into changing my PPP so often.

Uh. I've got my permanently set to 20, and just went to Sunnydale Press, where there were no unread messages, and I got only the one most recent message. It didn't try to display 20.

I'm confused-- is that what you were talking about?

If you choose 20, 20 is your maximum page size. If there were 20 or more unread posts you would get 20. If there were fewer than 20 unread posts then you get that number.

If you hit recent you get the most recent 20 post. (Clicking on a thread where you have read everything is the same as hitting recent. Clicking on a thread with unread posts gives you those posts)

If you hit previous and there are more than 20 prior posts, you get the previous 20 posts. If you hit next and there are 20 or more posts remaining after the last one on your current page you get 20. And so on.

If I have a thread with no unread posts and I click it, sometimes it'll give me just the last post, and sometimes it'll give me the last 10.

t edit: OK, it looks like clicking regular threads will give me the last 10, while clicking threads in the right column will give me the last 1.

edit: OK, it looks like clicking regular threads will give me the last 10, while clicking threads in the right column will give me the last 1.

Oh. Interesting. 'Cause I'd gone to SP, of course. I wonder, why is that so?

I was reading Kristen's postcard post in Press and wondering where she meant to put the line breaks (after I made a postcard out to "Les Moonves CBS"). And I was thinking, why does <BR>, out of all the common HTML tags, not have a quick-edit? Like

Haikus break on five
l And seven. They're not fragile;
l They just like coffee.

(l is for linebreak, since b is taken.) Also, I think <BR> should be on the list of HTML codes you can use on the Quickedit page. For lo, it hath confused even Joss.

Also, I think <BR> should be on the list of HTML codes you can use on the Quickedit page.

Done.

And I agree that an "l" quickedit for <br> would be a cool thing.

... Because I have no sense of embarrassment I will now mention the idea I had once for quick-edit for links. You'd write "h" at the beginning of the line (for "href", as "a" is obviously a bad idea) and then paste the link, and then put a space, then the text you want to be linky, all on the same line, and then hard-return again for normal text: like

I have found the
h [link] most amazing story
about Angel and a girl named Meri Sue

would come out as

I have found the most amazing story about Angel and a girl named Meri Sue

Because, quickedit, it's not just about not knowing how to do HTML; it's being able to be faster! And about not having to remember to close tags, because you are a lazy bastard. And not having to worry about your clumsy fingers making one " and one ' and then breaking the board. And if you *also* don't know enough HTML to make a link, then it's still just ducky.

Innerestin' idea Liz. Here's another thought - If we implemented that, maybe we could disallow "longhand" href's. There would be no need for them, and the problem of mismatched quotes within a URL would solve itself.

In my mind, it makes more sense to use l as the "link" abreviation and "r" for a return. But things like that which make sense to me rarely make sense to anyone outside my head.

Hmm we could take La Liz's suggestion to it's logical conclusion. Create quick edit tags for all the HTMl tags we currently allow, and disallow regular HTML. Voila - no more problem html.

You're going to shove that can of screen cleaner where? No wait, it was only a passing thought. I didn't really mean it. Please no..... t Arrgh.

Hello, emergency? Well you see....