Add question one-boxing markdown - Meta

Paul White

cool

Jack Douglas

good point — I've tweaked it to accept either http or https, and with or without www

Adám

I use it for novel tld. That'd include .xyz

Paul White

I doubt many people use the www but...

Paul White

https://www.topanswers.xyz/meta?q=8

Paul White replying to Jack Douglas

Neat! https only?

Paul White

http://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=8

Paul White

@@@ question 8

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

it does now :)

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

not at all — your input is always super-helpful

Paul White

Great, thanks again. Awesome work. I hope I don't come off as criticising; the question one-boxing is very welcome.

Jack Douglas

there is a bit here:  
  
@@@ answer 44

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

not really

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

good thinking

Paul White

Are the TA markdown extensions documented somewhere on meta already?

Paul White

Anyway, something to ponder. I'm glad I understand how to use `@@@` properly now.

Paul White

i.e. https://xkcd.com/1378/

Paul White

If I edit my xkcd one-box, I would expect to see the text I typed, not how TA implemented it

Paul White

It is more work, but I wonder if keeping the user text of a message separate from the system-text would be a solution

Paul White

`@@@ xkcd 1378 38d82417a7596de931709a6e5d327842b16131a3726e9f423e0ac1f30fa6e07b "Turbine" "Ok, plan B: Fly a kite into the blades, with a rock in a sling dangling below it, and create the world's largest trebuchet."`

Jack Douglas

ie paste the link into a pop-up

Jack Douglas

but there could be a button 'helper' in the toolbar

Jack Douglas

I don't think that can work in a post on the fly

Paul White

Yes there's quite a bit of exposed internals there

Jack Douglas

the oneboxing actually substitutes the link for the markdown syntax

Jack Douglas

if you post a onebox (eg youtube or xkcd) and then try to edit it you'll see what I mean

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

that would be quite a lot more difficult

Paul White

I wonder if doing that, only where the link is alone on a line, would make the `@@@` syntax just sugar?  
The link is much more discoverable, assuming it works in preview everywhere i.e. including post writing/edit preview.

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

it really should

Paul White

@@@question 8

Paul White

Is there a reason the full link (alone) couldn't onebox as well as the special `@@@` syntax?

Paul White

Oh I see

Paul White

hm

Paul White

https://topanswers.xyz/codegolf?q=609

Paul White replying to Jack Douglas

Why didn't the link above one-box?

Paul White

https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=8

Jack Douglas

(though not with respect to each other — there is a `question_id=1` and and `answer_id=1`, so @PeterVandivier's earlier suggestion won't work as he discovered)

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

@Adám there isn't any need because the question and answer ids are unique site-wide

Jack Douglas replying to Paul White

I've fixed the bug so that foreign one-boxed posts now get the correct community colours — the 'Hello World' examples I posted from Code Golf now show green correctly. As far as I can tell you could already post them cross-community everywhere and only the colours were wrong?

Adám

Why not simply `@@@ sitename question NN`?

Paul White

@Jack Thanks that's great. Any thoughts as to how this might be extended one day so questions and answers from a different site might be one-boxed as well? I find myself wanting this most often when referring to a Meta post from my home site Databases.

Jack Douglas

@@@ question 609

PeterVandivier

except for `@@@ answer 72` one-boxes to another thread entirely, so... maybe not that :-/

PeterVandivier

fwiw - `@@@ answer 44` one-boxes the parent question 72. maybe `@@@ post nnn` is a sensible syntax? or just make the token between the `@@@` and the `nnn` a throwaway?

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