Kirill N Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Is it possible? I keep seeing them in like every second post and (imo) it's annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill N Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Another example of why this is necessary: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill N Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Any comment from the staff? One more example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Any comment from the staff? One more example: You are talking about the big space right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 The default space between paragraphs can be set via CSS. The number of empty lines is a user choice. One might want to clearly separate paragraphs with a larger space. The software should interfere with that. That would be very annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill N Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 The default space between paragraphs can be set via CSS. The number of empty lines is a user choice. One might want to clearly separate paragraphs with a larger space. The software should interfere with that. That would be very annoying. Take a look at the latest example I posted - do you think the user chose to have about 6 empty lines at the end of his post? Obviously that happened as a result of him copying and pasting the link. I think the system should take care of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I think the system should take care of that.And how should the system know what is a wanted or unwanted line break? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill N Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 And how should the system know what is a wanted or unwanted line break?That's not the question - if there's more than 1 empty line in a post - clearly it's unwanted. Why would anyone leave giant space between paragraphs on purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 That's not the question - if there's more than 1 empty line in a post - clearly it's unwanted. No it’s not. I myself use double line breaks from time to time to indicate that I start a completely different topic now. Or someone might just use it for fun and MAKE AN BOLD STATEMENT … … and then say: just kidding! Again: I don’t want my editor to get clever and mess with what I am doing. If IPS would implement something like that, users would start complaining why the editor doesn’t respect what the user is actually creating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill N Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 @opentype You can easily do that by adding dots at each line......like this!I understand what you're saying but unwanted line breaks clearly happen way more often than those made on purpose so I'd rather have the editor disable them altogether than having 50% of posts look like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 @opentype You can easily do that by adding dots at each line......like this!I'm sorry, but that looks like crap.I agree that the editor itself should not be adding line breaks the user didn't ask for, but there are legitimate use cases where users want more whitespace. My users do it all the time.So no, I do not support the wholesale stripping-out of extra whitespace.If you have one or two users who abuse whitespace, well that's what moderators are for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jimmo Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I see no problem with it. As the poster, I can decide how many damn linebreaks I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill N Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Again, from what I see on this community it's not users abusing whitespace, it is unwanted whitespace that is probably a result of copypasting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemmos Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Again, from what I see on this community it's not users abusing whitespace, it is unwanted whitespace that is probably a result of copypasting stuff.You might want to check out the topic "Paste as plain text by default". Should be enabled by default?If it's not users abusing the line breaks, it's probably due to the HTML that's added. Most end users, from my experience, don't reformat their posts after pasting from other sources. So you'll have a bunch of redundant paragraph tags and divs added. Having them paste as plain text would probably be the best solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexsplosions Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 No it’s not. I myself use double line breaks from time to time to indicate that I start a completely different topic now. Or someone might just use it for fun and MAKE AN BOLD STATEMENT … … and then say: just kidding! Again: I don’t want my editor to get clever and mess with what I am doing. If IPS would implement something like that, users would start complaining why the editor doesn’t respect what the user is actually creating. I do that all the time! I really do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jimmo Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Again, from what I see on this community it's not users abusing whitespace, it is unwanted whitespace that is probably a result of copypasting stuff.So again, we circle back to: how should the editor know intended whitespace vs non-intended whitespace?The topic @Cemmos stated is efficient to removing the copy/paste issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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