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    • ruario
      ruario last edited by

      Forget it, It doesn't work. ๐Ÿ˜ž

      Or really? @gwen-dragon ๐Ÿ˜›

      [@gwen-dragon](/profile/gwen-dragon)
      

      Yeah, ok you wouldn't want to do that every time. I agree it seems very broken!

      P.S. @ is an At symbol.

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      • Deleted User
        Deleted User last edited by

        What did you do to make it work?

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        • ruario
          ruario last edited by

          What did you do to make it work?

          I wrote the HTML code I used in my previous posting.

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          • linuxmint7
            linuxmint7 last edited by

            @ruario That's definitely a mouthful O.O. As you say, it's not something one would wish to do every time.

            Using the Bold formatting to highlight a persons user-name could be a quicker temporary option (for now). Although not click-able, it still makes it easier to see who someone is referring to.

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            • blackbird71
              blackbird71 last edited by

              Thanks @ruario. Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames...
              ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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              • Deleted User
                Deleted User last edited by

                Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames...

                @blackbird71 Sorry, but my GwenDragon can not be reactivated here, so i had to use Gwen-Dragon ๐Ÿ˜‰

                @ruario The autoformatting of the Markdown implementation in forum does not work user freindlich, what a pitty.

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                • blackbird71
                  blackbird71 last edited by

                  Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames...

                  @blackbird71 Sorry, but my GwenDragon can not be reactivated here, so i had to use Gwen-Dragon ...

                  It's not a problem for me, especially since I now have @ruario's "secret recipe" for how to enter such a name correctly here. But the forum notification system will probably not notify you if someone simply mentions your name in a forum post (which is what I originally was trying to do back at the beginning of all this)... assuming, of course, that you have notifications turned on. If somebody else simply enters @gwen-dragon to 'flag' you, the broken link becomes unrecognizeable, both by other users seeking your profile and by the system for notification purposes. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                  • Deleted User
                    Deleted User last edited by

                    Yes, imho the parser code for usernames has a bug. the - is a allowed character in usernames, so the parser should not stop creating the profile link.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      @jetro

                      How do you get Enter in this thing stupid #%#ยค"&% forum type..

                      What do you mean?

                      I type Enter to get a new line, but it won't register it. So I made loads of lines, and it interprets it as one line. That's why I thought this code interpretation for a forum was really annoying. I expressed it quite badly, sorry.

                      Take a read of this thread, Jetro.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        @sgunhouse

                        No problem. The forum swallows underlines (interpreting them as formatting characters). Since I saw the italics in your post - and the BBcode - I knew exactly what happened.

                        What if you put it within a pair of angles or backticks?
                        :idea:

                        Testing: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_natural_history#Neoarchean_Era" ๐Ÿ˜•

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                        • sgunhouse
                          sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          I believe you can probably double it like__this, and of course HTML/C style character escapes (backslash before the character) _ ... and I believe it recognizes quotation marks "_".

                          Hmm, the doubled one still looks doubled, so no help. But the escaped one is fine (as expected).

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            I used angles in my example - it worked.
                            Try backticks, if you wish.
                            What I'm having in mind is that there must be found a way - or two, simple one(s) - that we can officially recommend to users, especially new ones.
                            The backtick might be harder to find on one's keyboard, but the angles - they must be pretty common, right? And it does work as it seems.

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