[image] Introducing fast edit announcements As of today it’s now possible to edit a small selection of a post in few clicks. [fast-edit] Can be disabled with the site setting: enable_fast_edit Important: If the code is not able to define with certainty which part of t…

[image] denvergeeks: Hey, where did this “Share” button on the Fast Edit popup come from? That’s a great question! And we both suspect that if we can find that, then your dream will be much closer to coming true! I think it must be Social Share . . . well, it doesn’t look like it from that t…

There are site settings where you can configure it. It works only on desktop view public topics. share quote visibility share quote buttons

FWIW setting explorer explains the settings well: GPT Bot Settings Explorer ▶ Look up site setting context The share_quote_buttons setting in Discourse determines which items appear in the quote sharing widget, and in what order. The default options include “Twitter” and “Email”. This setting is c…

“Floating Highlight Button” - yes, Love that name!

Could it be more feasible (or altogether crazy?) to allow all – or a specific group – of the built-in composer toolbar buttons to become Fast Edit “Floating Toolbar”? (i.e. Instead of adding more buttons to the Fast Edit, add the “Floating” option to something like MD Composer Extras or bbcode butto…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: My idea for the coloring would be to use [wrap=highlight] around the stuff you want highlighted and then apply the style to <div class="d-wrap" data-wrap="highlight"> Hmm, why use [wrap] when there is highlighted text which works out of the box? This is hi…

[image] Gerhard Schlager: Hmm, why use [wrap] when there is highlighted text which works out of the box? LOL. Why indeed?

To simplify separated styling? (Or not?)

[image] denvergeeks: To simplify separated styling? So kind to come to my defense, but . . . That would be true only if you’re using in other places and want it to be different. I doubt that’s the case. What I’d recommend (and given that I didnt’ know existed, you might consid…

My future plan for this is to provide color options (via a color picker). So, for example, I can select some text and apply a light blue highlight, and then select some other text and apply a pink highlight, and so on. One (sometimes fatal, I think) limitation in the current version is that the hi…

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Change “share quote visibility” default from ANONYMOUS to ALL

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