How to replace text in the composer?

[Newuser]

Hi all,

I have a very simple question, but I can’t find the answer anywhere.
I want to create custom BBcode without a closing tag, how do I do that?

Thanks to this topic I already figured out how to replace [something]something else[/something] with html code.

Custom BBCode Help/Advice

UPDATE: Figured it out! I’m trying to make make a plugin that makes a custom bbcode that maps [vote]name[/vote] to <p><span class="highlight"><b>VOTE:name</b></span></p> I’ve been reading the stuff in this topic along with going through the various bbcode plugin repos that exist, and If I’m understanding the examples correctly the only relevant nontrivial places I have to change would be the stuff after wrap here ruler.push('vote',{ tag: 'vote', wrap: }); and the stuff in squa…

But now I would like to find out how to just replace [something]. For instance, I would like to know how to replace [br] with <br>. Or just any substring (not containing a closing tag) with something else. I already looked at the source of the discourse-bbcode plugin, but every bbcode in that plugin has a closing tag.

Basically I am looking for something like this:

(Superseded) Plugin Tutorial #1 - How to manipulate the text in the composer?

This topic has been superseded by Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin So, you want to manipulate the text in the composer but have no idea how? Let met guide you through the creation of a basic plugin that will turn the text into Pirate Speak. Update August 2018: you can create a complete discourse plugin skeleton in your plugins directory with Rails plugin generator First of all, you need to create a plugin.rb file that will b…

But then something that still works.
Can someone help me or point me in the right direction?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

One feature request that keeps coming up is a “substitute / replace” section in Admin → Logs → Watched Words.

I still think we should do this @sam and @eviltrout though it could be a 2.7 or beyond thing.

[Newuser]

@codinghorror

One feature request that keeps coming up is a “substitute / replace” section in Admin → Logs → Watched Words.

That would be really great, as long as the replacement allows HTML

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

For 2.7 I did slot linked words, we can surely add this as well while at it… will add to the release.

[jughead]

I see this still hasn’t been done. Although the option to replace words was added under watched words, it does not allow to replace a word with HTML code. I need the ability to have certain words replaced by HTML.

Furthermore, if anyone else can point me to a resource to embed a piece of html in a single post, please let me know.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

You can replace words with other words, or you can replace word(s) with a link. Do this via Admin → Customize → Watched Words. That’s as of Discourse 2.7 and later.

But you can’t replace words with markup due to limitations in our rendering pipeline.