Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Hi all. Would it be at all possible, if someone say has a long nickname, and you want to use it like say hey Harp412121 how are you? I mean can someone write maybe something like /un for username? Ok maybe this isn't making sense, I just mean that if someone's got a tricky or log name, you can adress them directly. I know you can use the pqn feature, but just thought I'd stick this out there. later,
SM
that would be nice if you wanted to ask them something thinking they might know and if they didnt someone else could answer
Yeah, some user names are annoyingly long and cumbersome to write. I just shorten them when sending them a note over publics. For example, I would shorten yours to MV (not that yours is annoyingly long), but I think most people do that sort of thing.
Hi Becky. Yeah I do that also, but didn't know if that might be coded in or something. If not, hey I'm not whiner so it's cool.
i don't see how we'd code it. Ideas?
personally, i don't see any point. I just shorten the name if i wanna type it quickly.
Well yes I think Jay has hit upon the obvious floor with this suggestion, it is all well and good saying that you type /un for the user name, but how on earth is the system supposed to know which user name to input unless you type the full thing?
I quite like the idea but it does seem like it would be nearly impossible to code.
Thanks. Dan.
Actually having given this a little more thought how would this work. If you selected the user's name from the drop down combo box, as you would if you were going to send a private quick note to them, but then could use the /un command instead where you wanted the name to be input and instead of the message going privately the message would be sent as a public quick note but with the user's name placed where the /un command had been written.
I'm not sure how tough that would be to code of course but it's the only way I can think of doing it though.
Thanks. Dan.
I've got an idea. Instead of using /un, use %n, for name. Usually commands that begin with a slash are to be used at the beginning of the qn, while things that use percent can be used throughout the qn. This could work.
PercentN already yields your current user name.
From a coding prospective, you'd probably have to have the switch except a parameter, which could contain as many of the letters the user wanted to input.
Example:
/un jmb
/un f
/un whatever
Do a substring-type routine on the parameter, and return the user who most closely fits the match.
i was thinking similarly to that, but selecting the user in the combow box sounds better for commandline novis folks.
maybe I'm just tired but I'm confused Lol
This all sounds rather complicated and almost more trouble than it would be worth. I mean if you have to select a combo box and then type % something or un something, you are taking up time when you could have just written your qn and sent it already. I would just continue using a shortcut for the name of the person rather than go through all of that.
I can see both sides of the issue. It would be nice, but honestly, I think that if we just shorten names, people usually know what we're talking about.
Perhaps if we had a smaller character limit when creating user names...Kidding.
Yay for the command line!
pwd, ls, cat, mkdir.
md, rd or mkdir, del, ren, attrib... shall i continue? lol
You two dopes!
You've made me come here and offer:
xcopy, subst, tree...
How could you exclude those?
I forgot cp and mv...
o yes! and del! of all the ones to forget, we had to forget del, and on some systems, deltree.
sed grep
ps kill killall
apt-get
lol, ok, I'll quit being a nerd now.
this has gone way off topic. lol
Next come the regular expressions! Anybody know one?
Regular expressions such as...?
*is slightly confused*
I'm not going to get into the branch that's evolved here. 'cause, I'd be lost in a second.
When I want to copy the name of a user who's logged on, I just go up to the list of users who are logged on (not the combo box, but all the links at the top, and copy their name to the clipboard with ctrl+c, and paste it into my message. It's easy and requires no coding.
Bob
Good idea, Bob. As for the rest, I don't have a clue what you people are talking about. LOL
Here is part of a batch script I use to integrate all hotfixes and sp2 in to xp.
for /f %%L in (%svcpackdir%HFINT.DAT) DO (
if %%L==mrxsmb.sys (
echo %%L.temp>>%svcpackdir%HFINT.TMP
) ELSE (
echo %%L>>%svcpackdir%HFINT.TMP
lol
Ok since no one really thinks I was serious and although you can shorten names, I'm wondering why this post went so crazy? Forget anything, I should've just kept my mouth shut.
OMG! WTF! BBQ!
I'm sorry Siobhan. I couldn't resist...
Yeah the only way that i could see it beeing able to work is you type there number instead of there name, which would just defete the whole point of it.
Vel, we will always listen to users opinions on this site. However, I believe that we should just simply shorten users' names, or if you really want to ask them something, you can just send them a private message. It just makes things easier in the long run.
gosh.
for once in a while, i agree with a comunity leader
and that is not often