How to turn smileys off by default ?

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1

Maybe it's just my Asperger syndrome, but personally, I feel smileys add nothing useful, or at least not enough of use to justify having them.

Really, if you're trying to get advice on how to code something, what use for ??? :stuck_out_tongue: :cry: :-\ :kissing: and the like?

This is (at least primarily) not a social forum.

I know that I cannot stop other people from using smileys, but I have no intention of using smileys in my own messages. Here is why I hate smileys: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

I want to turn off smileys in "quick reply", and also by default in "reply". How do I do this?

2

I doubt if you can do that because AFAIK the "incorrect" interpretation of (8) happens at the reader's end - not at the writer's end.

...R

3

Yes you can, but not by default as asked.
The smilies are processed after you click the "Post" button, but before the post is actually made visible.
If you want to disable that during your posts, you can switch off all code processing.
You can do that using the [nobbc] [/nobbc] tags, ironically.

After that you can use (8) and (;).
But you can't do this any more (the way you would want it to work):
[code]
Your code
[/code]
You'd have to switch off and on the nobbc tags temporarily, to get that or any other code, links and such to work again.
Smilies inside [code][/code] tags are also ignored during the processing of your post.
4

MAS3:
Yes you can, but not by default as asked.

Apologies for my ignorance and thanks for your useful advice.

...R

5

@MAS3

you can do

[nobbc] 
some text

[/nobbc]

[code]
void blink() ...
[/code]

[nobbc]
some other text

[/nobbc]

Giving:

some text

void blink() ...

some other text

6

I'm aware of that.
That's why i put this line in there too:

MAS3:
You'd have to switch off and on the nobbc tags temporarily, to get that or any other code, links and such to work again.

7

Hello odometer,

Smiley images are visual representations of text displayed in posts. To disable smiley images, click the Profile button (found in the top menu bar of the forum) from your profile page and turn the smileys off.

Thanks & Regards

Homes in OMR

8

Hi realvalue1.

That will stop smilies for the one user that sets this in her/his profile.
It will not stop smilies to pop up unwanted to people reading that user's posts containing smiley generating texts like (8).