smilification nits

smilification nits

[Karl Kleinpaste]

(q0.22, XEmacs 20.3.)

Methinks the regexps are a bit too generous in their interpretation of 
certain strings as smilies.

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The above should bring up FaceKOed.xpm.  It's a pretty long reach to
call such a line a smiley at all.  Similarly:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The above should bring up a single WideFaceSmile.xbm, but could
something be done to leave some kind of indication of the size of the
underlying string?  They're usually used to highlight a slice of text
immediately above, but it seems reducing long strings to a single
left-justified pair of eyes is a bit too minimalistic.

Re: smilification nits

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 08 Jan 1998 15:09:09 -0500, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> said:

Karl> (q0.22, XEmacs 20.3.)
Karl> Methinks the regexps are a bit too generous in their interpretation of 
Karl> certain strings as smilies.

If only things like perl's regexp:  /|-{0,2}|/ were easily possible in 
emacs, where you'd have to specificly write "|\\(-\\(-\\|\\)\\)|".  Ick.

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Re: smilification nits

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> If only things like perl's regexp:  /|-{0,2}|/ were easily possible in 
> emacs, where you'd have to specificly write "|\\(-\\(-\\|\\)\\)|".  Ick.

What about "|-?-?|" ? :-)
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Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk

Re: smilification nits

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 10 Jan 1998 01:08:08 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> said:

Lars> What about "|-?-?|" ? :-)

Ya got me ;-)

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Re: smilification nits

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

> The above should bring up a single WideFaceSmile.xbm, but could
> something be done to leave some kind of indication of the size of the
> underlying string?

How would one do that?

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Re: smilification nits

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
>> The above should bring up a single WideFaceSmile.xbm, but could
>> something be done to leave some kind of indication of the size of the
>> underlying string?

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> How would one do that?

I don't know; I was just thinking out loud.  But perhaps the
smilification should simply find pairs of `^' and replace each pair
with a (smaller) eyes image, rather than subsuming a whole line-width
of `^' with a single larger image.

Here's another nit: :):):)

You probably see one smiley.  There are actually 3.

Now middle-button around those a bit.  Particularly, convert them all
to <colon><rparen>, then middle-button the center one.  It eats two
<colon><rparen> sequences into a single face.  Middle-button the
remaining one and it simply disappears.

Re: smilification nits

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 12 Jan 1998 18:35:59 -0500, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> said:

Karl> Here's another nit: :):):)

Karl> You probably see one smiley.  There are actually 3.

There's a trip...  Kinda fun to play with really :-)



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Re: smilification nits

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

> Here's another nit: :):):)
> 
> You probably see one smiley.  There are actually 3.
> 
> Now middle-button around those a bit.  Particularly, convert them all
> to <colon><rparen>, then middle-button the center one.  It eats two
> <colon><rparen> sequences into a single face.  Middle-button the
> remaining one and it simply disappears.

It's a bug!  It's a feature!  No, wait... it's a game!

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