@Unihedro Not to sound overly critical, but I think the scope is too narrow and will quickly become a tech support forum requiring a boatload of moderators.
@JanDvorak And the regexes they give out are really inefficient and nest positive lookaheads incorrectly and cause catastrophic backtracking and I don't bother pointing it out because the asker doesn't deserve a proper regex.
\H matches anything which aren't horizontal whitespace. This includes tab character and all "space separator" Unicode characters. This is the same as:
[^\h] or
[^\t\p{Zs}]
\V is the negated class of \v - It is named "non vertical whitespace character" and matches any characters which aren't a...
They really should use \V over [^\n] where possible.
The feature request would be: When posting a question, give user a choice of 2 templates: 1) Classic - Free form 2) Itemized: (a) Enter your abstract/description (b) Enter the expected behavior (c) enter the actual behavior (d) enter your error/exception (e) add relevant code.
2
Obviously, this a better for straight code issues, so if your question doesn't fit that, go classic.
But for most newbie questions, it'll pretty much layout the necessary components needed to debug the issue.
@Unihedro That's entirely possible. The newbies will need to put effort in,.... but it's very clear to me that the current freeform "here's a big textarea; type stuff in" is intimidating, and worse, provides no inline guidance for expectations.
@LynnCrumbling what if we seal each tag three years after its creation? If you have anything important to ask, it better be about something semi-recent.
@JanDvorak --> "and should I purchase some type of computer equipment to get started?" <---- This is perhaps the best indication that programming is not for you. Every programmer that I know that is worth anything figured all of this on their own, which is a trait inherent to the skill superset. If you haven't done that already, perhaps there are better career choices for you.
@JanDvorak I had all of this typed out: "Users were expecting to see (1) a brief explanation: "I'd like to have a panel that slides up, revealing other content, when a user clicks on it." (2) code that you attempted, along with what happened instead of what was expected: "e.g.: I tried this: (+ 1 or more code snippets)", and (3) ideas for other attempts. Instead, you posted 2 pages of screen captures of another application, and effectively asked someone to write your app."
Whoa. This is the longest homework dump I've seen in a long time. It's also the highest reputation I've seen a person posting something like this have in a long time. — Jan Dvorak20 secs ago
ok, out of all the chat room faq's i've read, I have not seen anything like this. Is the only way to reply to a specific message is to hover over that message and click the reply button? Is there a keyboard shortcut?
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\H matches anything which aren't horizontal whitespace. This includes tab character and all "space separator" Unicode characters. This is the same as:
[^\h] or
[^\t\p{Zs}]
\V is the negated class of \v - It is named "non vertical whitespace character" and matches any characters which aren't a...
Press : to start replying to a previous message.
Press ↑ as many times as you need to mark the desired message.
What does it do?
First of all, the Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites provides a simple key combination to select a message to reply to.
This removes the need to grab the...
Screenshot
Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks:
See message history inline:
Easily preview replied-to messages:
And much, much more...
About
Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack Overflow chatter who despised using their mouse above all things. In an effort to keep t...