Chris Bryant
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Is there any way that as a user, we can "escape" a : so that when we need to type something like colon c it doesn't come out  .
A moderator did it for me in another thread.
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RVSnowbird
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a colon is part of the smiley code and only one is not preceeded by a colon.
They are given with the codes in the Using the message toolbar and 4UMS code.
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skipnchar
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Hummm...never thought of it but then how often would you NEED to?  I guess you could just put a space in it like : C or encased like Olock OK THAT doesn't work either
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Chris Bryant
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Yeah- but every now and then I want to be able to type it and not have a smiley come out. I had a post in this thread where a moderator fixed it so it isn't a smiley. I was just wondering if there is a trick that a user can use, or if it takes moderator access to do that.
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Little Kopit
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I use the colon all the time. Especially when I'm giving a link to a url or a list.
For example:
- you can give a : after a letter, but not before
- to give a colon immediately before a letter often creates a smiley, i.e.  should produce a winking smiley.
- most grammar puts a space right after a colon, that's why is usually works for smileys for many of us.
 that's made with a semi-colon.
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pulsar
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If you need to a colon before a letter you can use the html character code & # 58, without spaces.
Using the html character code, here is colon C,
:C
The real downside is that if the post is quoted, the colon C will become the smiley. I will quote this post in a new post right below this one to show what I mean. One cannot even edit their own post without having to re-enter the html character code.
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pulsar
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pulsar wrote:If you need to a colon before a letter you can use the html character code & # 58, without spaces.
Using the html character code, here is colon C,
The real downside is that if the post is quoted, the colon C will become the smiley. I will quote this post in a new post right below this one to show what I mean. One cannot even edit their own post without having to re-enter the html character code.
Tom
When quoted, the :C of the previous post has become
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Chris Bryant
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Ahh- Thanks Tom. Some forum software has a [code] [/code]feature which keeps the stuff from being changed.
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Little Kopit
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Chris, I'd appreciate some context.
On what occasions in writing a sentence or phrase do you use a colon immediately before a letter?
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pulsar
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Little Kopit wrote:Chris, I'd appreciate some context.
On what occasions in writing a sentence or phrase do you use a colon immediately before a letter?
Here is the post to which Chris refers in the originating post.
In it, he needed about:config. If one used a colon, that would come out as, aboutonfig
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