As regular posters may know, the [cmd] tag is quite tricky to use. Until now, when using the
button on a selected block of text, you were prompted for a 'parameter', which was either % or $ for a user command, # for a root command, or a space or "" if the distinction did not matter.
However, simply pressing [enter] in that box resulted in something that literally looked like "[cmd]ls -al[/cmd]", which means it had to be edited by hand into something like [cmd=""]ls -al[/cmd], to make it look like the desired [cmd=]ls -al[/cmd].
To mitigate this issue, the [cmd] tag can now be used like this: [cmd]ls -al[/cmd] which will simply show
button in the edit box will now also work with the 'straight' [cmd] tag, so it will no longer prompt for a parameter.
If you really need to emphasize that a command needs to be run as a certain user, just make the user prompt (e.g. $ or % or #) part of the command itself. For example, [cmd]# ls -al[/cmd], which will look like
To maintain backward compatibility, the old-style [cmd] tags, which contained the user prompts within the tag (e.g. [cmd=$]) will continue to work.
The current options, in short:
For all intents and purposes, simply selecting a block of text and clicking the
button will give the desired outcome in almost every case. I hope this change adds to the usability of these forums.
However, simply pressing [enter] in that box resulted in something that literally looked like "[cmd]ls -al[/cmd]", which means it had to be edited by hand into something like [cmd=""]ls -al[/cmd], to make it look like the desired [cmd=]ls -al[/cmd].
To mitigate this issue, the [cmd] tag can now be used like this: [cmd]ls -al[/cmd] which will simply show
ls -al. Moreover, the
If you really need to emphasize that a command needs to be run as a certain user, just make the user prompt (e.g. $ or % or #) part of the command itself. For example, [cmd]# ls -al[/cmd], which will look like
# ls -al.To maintain backward compatibility, the old-style [cmd] tags, which contained the user prompts within the tag (e.g. [cmd=$]) will continue to work.
The current options, in short:
- [cmd]ls -al[/cmd] gives:
ls -al - [cmd]$ ls -al[/cmd] gives:
$ ls -al - [cmd]% ls -al[/cmd] gives:
% ls -al - [cmd]# ls -al[/cmd] gives:
# ls -al - [cmd=]ls -al[/cmd] gives: [cmd=]ls -al[/cmd]
- [cmd=""]ls -al[/cmd] gives: [cmd=""]ls -al[/cmd]
- [cmd=$]ls -al[/cmd] gives:
$ ls -al - [cmd=%]ls -al[/cmd] gives:
% ls -al - [cmd=#]ls -al[/cmd] gives:
# ls -al
For all intents and purposes, simply selecting a block of text and clicking the