Topic: copy & paste from listing

[stevesfr]

Occasionally when a lisp is posted here, each line is preceeded by a number (line numbering format).  I ran across a hint of how to copy and paste such postings without having the line numbers present.   Can't remember how to do it or where I may have filed that tip. Any help appreciated.
TIA
Steve

[BlackBox]

Occasionally when a lisp is posted here, each line is preceeded by a number (line numbering format). 

I've not experienced this behavior outside of old Through-The-Interface blog posts (yet?)... Can you post a link to a post as an example?

[Lee Mac]

What browser are you using Steve?
Line numbers are not copied for me using FF16.0.2, though the code does lose one of the indenting spaces.

If I recall, I think you can circumvent the issue by quoting the post containing the code block.

[BlackBox]

Occasionally when a lisp is posted here, each line is preceeded by a number (line numbering format). 

I've not experienced this behavior outside of old Through-The-Interface blog posts...

For completeness, here's an example of what I mentioned having experienced this line number behavior.

[danallen]

also to remove the lines if you can't avoid getting them, many text editors accept ALT-selecting to select a block of text across multiple lines. grab just the first two characters of each line and delete

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/select-text-vertically-in-microsoft-word/

Dan

[stevesfr]

Occasionally when a lisp is posted here, each line is preceeded by a number (line numbering format). 

I've not experienced this behavior outside of old Through-The-Interface blog posts (yet?)... Can you post a link to a post as an example?

right cheer it is !!!!!!!
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=43107.0

[stevesfr]

What browser are you using Steve?
Line numbers are not copied for me using FF16.0.2, though the code does lose one of the indenting spaces.

If I recall, I think you can circumvent the issue by quoting the post containing the code block.

Lee, I'm using IE, then copy and thence to notepad.   thus the line numbers are copied also.
why people post with the line numbers, I'll never understand the stup..... ty.
Steve

[Lee Mac]

Lee, I'm using IE, then copy and thence to notepad.   thus the line numbers are copied also.

I can't say for Chrome, but line numbers (i.e. HTML <ol> numbering) are not copied with FF16.0.2 but are copied in IE9; also in IE9, line breaks appear to be removed.

why people post with the line numbers, I'll never understand the stup..... ty.

For those of us who wish to analyse the posted code rather than simply copy it, the syntax highlighting afforded by the GeSHi forum plugin improves the readability of the code. Note that line numbers are automatically added by this plugin, not by the poster.

[Kerry]

I usually use FireFox, so line-numbers are not copied.

Google Chrome also does not copy line-numbers.

Unfortunately removing line numbers would not solve the issue for IE9 because it also has issues with line feeds
If I'm in IE9 I select the code, right click and 'copy to OneNote' then copy paste from there later.

From memory, pasting into WordPad from IE9 also works.

If you do find an editor that lets you post the code without stuffing-up the formatting than ALT+select the line numbers in (column mode) will help in deleting the numbers.

I dread seeing postings using the standard [ code ] formatting ... in a lot of cases I don't even bother reading them.

[GP]

With IE I solved this way:
quote the message, select code, copy and paste.

[Kerry]

Yes, I've done that too ... think I posted about it here somewhere... forgot about that method.

oldtimers disease


Yep !
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=32381.0

[irneb]

oldtimers disease

What's that called again? Internet Explorianism? There's a whole bunch of cures for that! Two of them are extremely popular! ... just kidding  , I think I remember a thread where we discussed this very same topic before.

It's actually strange just how many troubles IE caused (and still does) over the web. I remember a while back having to code 2 separate pages for each page on a website: 1 for IE, and 1 for the "real" browsers (Mozaic/Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Seamonkey/Opera/Chrome/etc.)! It seems nothing's actually changed in 10 years+.  :realmad:

[stevesfr]

Yes, I've done that too ... think I posted about it here somewhere... forgot about that method.

oldtimers disease


Yep !
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=32381.0

Perfect Kerry, perfect.......... many thanks posting the link I was after.
Steve