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How to prepare your post reply (without to loose everything)

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in a recent post, nneba wrote:I just finished typing a 40 minute post in response to your link, and my session timed out, that really f'n frustrates me. whatever!


Dear nneba,
The best way is to prepare your text before to click on the 'post reply' button.

- Under Windows open the Notepad text editor. The user manual is here:
http://www.smartlabsoftware.com/howto/n ... torial.htm
- Under Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc) in a new console, open gedit (or kedit, nino, etc)

The principle is always the same:
- enter your text
- make all corrections and save every five minutes
- select in blue the entered text with the mouse
- click on 'copy'
Then return back to the besslerwheel.com forum page where you want to reply
- click on the 'post reply' button
- position the prompt at the upper left corner of the text area
- click on 'paste' (right button of the mouse)
Don't forget to put the additional HTML ankers (can be also prepared in the original editor text):
- in front of any web link click on the 'url' icon, after the same link click on the 'url*' icon
(the final format must be: open bracketurlclosed brackethttp://www.besslerwheel.comopen bracket/urlclosed bracket)
- the same method for italic, etc.

By the same way, you can select in blue with the mouse a specific area from another post, make a copy and paste this area inside the prepared text.
Remember the particular format of the 'quote' anker. Here is an example:
open bracketquote="name of the previous poster"closed bracketthe reference textopen bracket/quoteclosed bracket
gives:
name of the previous poster wrote:the reference text


All of this is trivial, but can be useful for many members/guests of this forum
I cannot imagine why nobody though on this before, including myself? It is so simple!...
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I find it much easier with less hassle and mumbo-jumbo to simply right click in the reply window, 'select all' turning it blue and then right click again and 'copy'... I have formed a habit of doing this before hitting the submit button.

If I have timed out, simply log back in and your reply window will open, right click and paste. then hit the submit button.

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Post by DrWhat »

Top idea Ralph, I do the same!
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