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gauthma

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[Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

This happened me today when I was writing a post, and had to interrupt the process. I just realized I couldn't save what I'd written in the "forum cloud", to continue at a later time. Has anyone else missed this feature? What would be the effort to implement it (assuming there's enough demand for it)?

Last edited by gauthma (2011-06-18 14:25:32)

karol

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

I create my posts in vim and when I'm done, I copy them to the browser and hit 'Preview' & 'Submit'.

gauthma

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

I create my posts in vim and when I'm done, I copy them to the browser and hit 'Preview' & 'Submit'.

A perfectly valid approach, but one I'd rather do without (don't get me wrong, I'm big, big fan of vim, but for writing forum posts, I think is overdoing it )

karol

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

If you're in the browser already, you can use e.g. gmail for writing and saving drafts.

Have you tried just saving session and closing your browser?

Last edited by karol (2011-06-17 23:04:03)

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

I copy the text to the "clipboard" just before I hit submit -- just in case.

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tomk

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

What would be the effort to implement it (assuming there's enough demand for it)?

Grab the FluxBB code, write a patch, submit it upstream.

jac

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

I copy the text to the "clipboard" just before I hit submit -- just in case.

Does that really work for you? Are you using anything to sync any buffers? I thought the primary selection (if that /is/ the primary selection) gets deleted if you say, close a tab. Would it not do the same when you press "Submit"?

Edit: Huh, just worked now. I guess I'll start doing that myself then Thanks!

Last edited by jac (2011-06-18 00:13:20)

stqn

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

Under Firefox, you can use the Lazarus addon. It saves everything you type in forms, then you can get it back with a right click.

litemotiv

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

I copy the text to the "clipboard" just before I hit submit -- just in case.

Yes i've been forcing myself to do that too since the bbs switched to https, you can't really rely on the back-button anymore..

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gauthma

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Re: [Solved] Save posts (aka drafts)

What would be the effort to implement it (assuming there's enough demand for it)?

Grab the FluxBB code, write a patch, submit it upstream.

That just answered my original question I had hoped that it could be a setting that had to enabled, but it seems otherwise. Such being the case, I'll probably try stqn's suggestion and install Lazarus. Thank you all for the feedback!