Comments on: Strip extraneous line breaks at the end of posts.

Strip extraneous line breaks at the end of posts.

gleemax — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:00:19 -0800

Strip extraneous line breaks at the end of posts.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:20:52 -0800

Okay.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:05:57 -0800

No! I will die to protect my right to extraneous line breaks! Without extraneous line breaks, our very way of life will be threatened!

Actually that's a pretty good idea....

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:09:01 -0800

What?

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:09:27 -0800

c'mon, someone had to

By: holloway

holloway — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:29:43 -0800

Strip occurences of more than two linebreaks, too.

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:46:41 -0800

If I see a ~~post~~ line break I don't like, I just don't read it.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:16:50 -0800

I do it on metafilter, but not here. I really should just add that simple code to do it.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:19:41 -0800

What if people are just pausing for

effect?

By: luser

luser — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:46:58 -0800

Also can you strip out extraneous mentions of farm animals?

*ducks*

*chickens*

etc.?????

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:12:31 -0800

I do it on metafilter, but not here. Me too! (I mean, from now on, now that I know the rule) P.S. All my line breaks are due to excessive paragraphing while editing. I now make a point of sucking in my "posted by" tag with the delete key before I post, so that there's no ridiculous, Italian-Opera-style spacing. On the other hand, on MetaFilter I go wild, I tell ya!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:14:10 -0800

You're drinking again, aren't ya Mikey? C'mon, fess up!

By: websavvy

websavvy — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:54:52 -0800

Omit needless words!

By: Neale

Neale — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:01:57 -0800

Omit words!

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:16:25 -0800

Omit!

By: ceiriog

ceiriog — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:43:25 -0800

Om...

By: moss

moss — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:45:29 -0800

< !-- omit needless words. omit needless words. omit needless words -->

By: moss

moss — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:46:21 -0800

Augh! You mean I can't hide comments in posts? Tragedy!

But probably also a good idea, I suppose.

By: TacoConsumer

TacoConsumer — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:49:23 -0800

Ignore this post.

By: luser

luser — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:31:01 -0800

Everything I say is a lie.

By: gleemax

gleemax — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:24:16 -0800

That reminds me of Grosse Pointe Blank, luser.

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:44:49 -0800

*grabs lapels, leans forward*
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

By: kindall

kindall — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:58:05 -0800

There are a lot of unnecessary parts in your average car. Someone should tell the enigneers that they're doing it all wrong.

By: rodii

rodii — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:03:23 -0800

Cup holders ruined everything.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:06:36 -0800

And those headlight wipers. Still haven't figured those out. They must be a freak of evolution and will one day fade away like the sad coccyx, appendix, or left arm.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:17:07 -0800

As the left arm fades away, so does my sex life.