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Forum Enhancer

Introduction

This Greasemonkey/Tampermoney script allows you to write forum posts in markdown, with full pawn syntax highlighting automatically. It also supports ctrl+enter to submit, and tabbing within text for indentation.

Download

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/y-les...Forum_Enhancer

Note that this is a “user script”, a script that enhances a website from the browser directly. Thus you will need one of the addons used to run these scripts:

Firefox (tested): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir.../tampermonkey/

Chrome (not tested): https://chrome.******.com/webstore/d...jmpbldmpobfkfo

For more information and other browsers see this link:

https://openuserjs.org/about/Userscript-Beginners-HOWTO

Background

Southclaws got sick of writing BB code (and who can blame him), so wrote forumfmt to convert markdown in to BB code. This was originally written as an offline tool to convert documentation from github in to something that could be posted on the forums. However, I decided I wanted it more integrated so wrote this script to intercept post submissions, translate the text with the tool, and then submit that adjusted code instead.

What’s wrong with BB code? Well simply it isn’t widely used. If you write documentation on github, you’ll use markdown. If you write things on discord, you use markdown. It makes sense to be able to use the same code everywhere. Also, the [pawn] tags are broken on the forums, and didn’t support common keywords like foreach anyway.

Usage

Usage it very simple. When you make a post on the forums, use markdown instead of BB code. When you click post, or hit ctrl+enter (because tab no longer moves to the control) the text is converted and submitted.

You can also use tab as in code editors - including block indentation and unindentation of multiple selected lines.

Editing

Unfortunately, currently if you try edit a post you will only see the generated BB code, not the original markdown. Thus, I suggest you keep a backup somewhere and edit and re-paste that version. This isn’t hard if you are keeping documentation synced between the forums and github, since github will have the original still. Also, for some reason sometimes the “edit” screen doesn’t get the enhancement, I don’t know why, but just press F5 and it will be fine.

Markdown

For more information on markdown, there are hundreds of sites with more documentation. But for a brief example, this:

# Main heading

## Second heading

```
code
```

```pawn
// syntax-highlighted PAWN code (with extensions)
foreach (new i : Player)
{
if (i > 5)
printf("%d", i);
}
```

* **Bold list item 1**
* *Italic list item 2*
* List item 3 with `inline code`


Gives:

Main heading

Second heading

code

Code:

// syntax-highlighted PAWN code (with extensions)
foreach (new i : Player)
{
    if (i > 5)
        printf("%d", i);
}

• Bold list item 1
• Italic list item 2
• List item 3 with inline code