Posts on-save processing with regex/replace configurable in admin panel

[meglio (Anton)]

If often fix minor issues in posts manually going through all of the posts on my forum on a daily basis. It turns out that most of the issues are typical and I could write a regex/rewrite rule to force the fix as soon as the message is posted or edited.

It would be nice to have such a section in admin panel with a set of rules, 2 inputs each:

1. Regex (optionally introduces regex references)
2. Replace with (optionally uses regex references)

Examples

• Make empty lines between paragraphs
• Place space after comma if not inside a number (this rule is specific to Russian / Ukrainian locale)
• Remove links to websites from which smile embed codes were copied, i.e. [url=...][img...][/url]
• Place large images on their own lines and enforce an empty line before and after

[Mittineague]

Have you tried doing any of this with a plugin utilizing “Dialect”?

[meglio (Anton)]

Nope, may you please clarify what you mean.

[Mittineague]

@meglio

please clarify what you mean.

Something like the Pirate Speak plugin. eg.
post text is passed into an anonymous function

Discourse.Dialect.postProcessText(function (text)

and a custom function “parses and manipulates” the text

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[meglio (Anton)]

I see. No, my proposition is actually about a different thing. It may be a plugin, but configurable by admin, not hardcoded per-forum.