URL autoformatting

[CapnZapp]

Does the silence mean nobody's bothering to reply at all, or does it mean nobody's bothering to post a "Can't" reply...?

 

[Blackrat]

Does the silence mean nobody's bothering to reply at all, or does it mean nobody's bothering to post a "Can't" reply...?

I think it's the latter . I tried to find a way but didn't find one, so it's either "You Can't" or "My Setting-Fu is Weak". Sorry

 

[Morrus]

(ten chars)

What does that mean?

 

[Morrus]

Does the silence mean nobody's bothering to reply at all, or does it mean nobody's bothering to post a "Can't" reply...?

It's a "can't" reply. vBulletin doesn't have that functionality, I'm afraid.

Maybe a later version will have.

 

[frankthedm]

When you are making a post... under the text box where you enter the body of your post there's the Submit Reply and Preview Post buttons. Under them, there's the "Additional Options" section. You want the third checkbox under "Miscellaneous Options".

ahh, thanks. All these wonderful options that seem to have HiPS.

Big kitty

Angry kitty

 

[CapnZapp]

Thank you.

 

[CapnZapp]

Sorry to bring this up again, but I can't for the life of me get this behavior to go away.

I have tried everything from deselecting all three checkboxes in the advanced edit window to manually constructing my URL tags with a named link identical to the link itself*.

*) That is, to insert a link to this very thread, I would do
<URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/248036-url-autoformatting.html">http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/248036-url-autoformatting.html</URL>
(with <> replaced by [] of course)
to get a hyperlinked text called
http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/248036-url-autoformatting.html (this I faked through the COLOR and U tags)

But I only get
http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/248036-url-autoformatting.html
(i.e. the title of the page no matter what I do).

As you say this isn't your fault, allow me to ask what clumsy dickhead at vBulletin it was that took it upon him- or herself to decide that everyone would like his or her new kewl toy so much that it wasn't worth the bother to make it optional to not use it?!?!

 

[Deset Gled]

Test

www.giantitp.com

 

[Deset Gled]

Test

Giant In the Playground Games

It would appear that turning off the "Automatically parse links in text" option (in full response mode) stops the re-titling rather effectively. Unfortunately, it also removes the HTML link. You win some, you lose some.

 

[Darkness]

Sorry to bring this up again, but I can't for the life of me get this behavior to go away.

Hm, testing indicates it works for links to other sites but not for links to pages within these forums.

I.e.,

http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/248036-url-autoformatting.html = http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/248036-url-autoformatting.html

vs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page