How do I get "Newest Nodes" to permanently show more than the last 24 hours of questions again (i.e., get back to the way it was before I cleared "last checked time")?

Due to "popular demand", PerlMonks now supports Markdown formatting for writeups. Note: Initially, Markdown is only supported for comments (aka notes). If everyone likes it, we will extend the capability to root-level posts as well (SOPW posts, etc.)

Some relevant past discussions:

• Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
• Wiki-Style syntax for posting
• better wiki-like shortcuts.
• Markdown syntax useful to the Monastery?

Sorry it took me a minute to implement this feature. :-D

To enable the use of Markdown in your comments, go to your User Settings and change the "Format writeups as:" selection from 'conventional' to 'markdown'.

Be aware that this is a global setting. You can't select the format at the time you submit the writeup.

When you are looking at a writeup entry box (textarea), you will see a short note immediately above it indicating which markup you can use.

This change was actually relatively simple to implement, since modules for converting markdown to HTML already existed.
I would like to know if there is any demand for any other Lightweight markup languages.
For example, we could add support for Textile or some flavor of wiki text.

This is a great idea for a "Grafana-ish" community dashboard collating metrics from various Perl sites and communities. Should PerlMonks offer to participate? (Sadly the author did not mention us in a list of resources he contemplates metering initially.)

I was looking for how to insert actual < and > on a comment and saw that under the comment box there is this (tags reducted):

• Snippets of code should be wrapped in ... tags not ... tags. In fact, ... tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (... chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible editor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.

But the links either lead to nowhere (1st one) or lead to super-search with no results. Perhaps it can lead to a static page so as to reduce the burden to the site?

bw, bliako

Please open ?node_id=3989;BIT=www.google.com and click Search

I see

2021-05-07 and 2018-06-14 (searched 89.07% of DB).

90%? seriously?

I didn't get a notification for my reply here Re^3: Augmenting and reducing data structures (test)

I ran some tests with choroba++ and it seems that at least notifications for replies from one-self are unreliable/missing.

This is new, I haven't seen anything like this in the last 12 years...

Thursday April 4/22/2021

I'm not seeing any switch or option to turn on view all comments/replies in a thread, which is what I want so I can check a thread and see the entire thread, replies, comments, everything, at the same time. Is there such a view option? It's very difficult to actually read all replies and comments when you have to click many of them individually just to read what was hidden.

Also, I'd like to get rid of the "Replies are listed 'Best First'" sort because that's not the sort I want, I want either straight chronological, or nested chronological. This was particularly noticeable in a recent thread where 'best' had no meaning in the context of the thread, and the actual 'best' answers were actually hidden as comments you had to click to view.

ItÂ’s one

After I voted for the node, though, the encoding issue was gone:

It’s one 

I made screenshots of both the versions.

Update: I'm using Firefox 78.9.0esr on Linux.

I noticed the following error in nodelets about Montly/Weekly Best, maybe there is some work in progress?

Monthly Best
Internal problem occurred in get_picked_nodes
called with 10 bind variables when 9 are needed

Weekly Best
Internal problem occurred in get_picked_nodes
called with 10 bind variables when 9 are needed
[download]

L*

Whenever I browse Selected Best Nodes, I notice that I miss the create date that is included in "Super Search" results, "Nodes You Wrote", etc. Given that Selected Best Nodes may return postings that may be two decades old, the create date gives some context for the postings.

So I propose to add the create date to Selected Best Nodes.

Alexander

Effective today, the section of PerlMonks known as "Categorized Questions and Answers" is no longer in service. The section page is a tombstone. It is no longer possible to post Categorized Questions or Answers. It is also not possible to search such posts via Super Search. It wouldn't be useful anyway, because all of the posts which were Categorized Questions have been converted into SOPW posts. Likewise, all posts which were Categorized Answers have been converted into replies to those SOPW posts. In each case, the name of the CatQA 'section' in which the Question was placed has been added to the SOPW post as a keyword.

The intent of the CatQA section will, going forward, be fulfilled by a new system, whereby "good" questions (in SOPW) and their "best" answers will be given a special flag, as well as relevant keywords.

Some documentation and linkage changes remain to be made. If you see any, feel free to sent a msg to SiteDocClan, pmdev, or gods, depending.

For more information on this change, see prior discussion: RFC: Better Best Answers Gets Real

It's really tedious to need to correct code and example output after spotting a flaw.

That's why I just hacked PM.pl to automatically wrap code-tags around my combined source-file and output, so I just need one copy and paste.

Just put it into the same directory like your other scripts.

Activate it just with do "./PM.pl" inside your source file.

It requires a __DATA__ at the end of your source code and will warn you otherwise

NB: The do PM.pl; is omitted as is __DATA__ if it's the last line.

DEMO:

use v5.12;
use warnings;
do './PM.pl';

say for <DATA>

__DATA__
1
2
3
[download]

creates

<code>
use v5.12;
use warnings;

say for <DATA>

__DATA__
1
2
3
</code>
OUTPUT: <blockquote><i><code>
1

2

3

</code></i></blockquote>
[download]

which renders as

use v5.12;
use warnings;

say for <DATA>

__DATA__
1
2
3
[download]

1

2

3
[download]

PM.pl

The code is pretty self explanatory, you can adjust it to your needs

UPDATE: fixed localization of non-buffering

When I load the main page, there is a character encoding issue: Image

Interestingly, it appears normal when I open the link or when I log in.

Firefox also displays this warning on the development tools panel: "The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol."