Emoticon/Smiley-to-AutoLISP Translator

[Kent1Cooper]

Do you see Emoticons [Smileys, etc.] embedded in AutoLisp code in this forum?

If you are Signed In, and go to

My Settings / Preferences / Display / Emoticon type

and check the button for "None", you should then not see them when you are Signed In, but you will probably still see them when you get on the website but are Signed Out.

They are caused by colons being followed immediately by certain triggering characters.  Since this is a valid occurrence in AutoLisp code, they sometimes appear there.  Unfortunately, copying content that contains them and pasting it into a plain-text editor such as Notepad does not restore the original colon-and-character combination, but omits it.

So here's a Translator, so that you can tell what characters should go in place of the different kinds of emoticons.  It lists all combinations of a colon with any other character [on my US English PC keyboard].  Many of them do not trigger emoticons, but I am leaving them all in, so that if the collection of triggering characters should change, the translator will be up-to-date at the time anyone looks at it.

If AutoDesk should choose to remove emoticon capability from this forum as I would suggest, then this Translator will be obsolete.

[Remember, if you are Signed In and have your Emoticon type set to "None," this should not show any emoticons, but will be a rather pointless-looking list.]

:a = colon followed by a
:A = colon followed by A
😛 = colon followed by b
:B = colon followed by B
:c = colon followed by c
:C = colon followed by C
:d = colon followed by d
😄 = colon followed by D
:e = colon followed by e
:E = colon followed by E
:f = colon followed by f
:F = colon followed by F
:g = colon followed by g
:G = colon followed by G
:h = colon followed by h
:H = colon followed by H
:i = colon followed by i
:I = colon followed by I
:j = colon followed by j
:J = colon followed by J
:k = colon followed by k
:K = colon followed by K
:l = colon followed by l
:L = colon followed by L
:m = colon followed by m
:M = colon followed by M
:n = colon followed by n
:N = colon followed by N
😮 = colon followed by o
😮 = colon followed by O
😛 = colon followed by p
😛 = colon followed by P
:q = colon followed by q
:Q = colon followed by Q
:r = colon followed by r
:R = colon followed by R
:s = colon followed by s
:S = colon followed by S
:t = colon followed by t
:T = colon followed by T
:u = colon followed by u
:U = colon followed by U
:v = colon followed by v
:V = colon followed by V
:w = colon followed by w
:W = colon followed by W
:x = colon followed by x
:X = colon followed by X
:y = colon followed by y
:Y = colon followed by Y
:z = colon followed by z
:Z = colon followed by Z
:0 = colon followed by 0
:1 = colon followed by 1
:2 = colon followed by 2
:3 = colon followed by 3
:4 = colon followed by 4
:5 = colon followed by 5
:6 = colon followed by 6
:7 = colon followed by 7
:8 = colon followed by 8
:9 = colon followed by 9
:` = colon followed by `
:~ = colon followed by ~
:! = colon followed by !
:@ = colon followed by @
:# = colon followed by #
:$ = colon followed by $
:% = colon followed by %
:^ = colon followed by ^
:& = colon followed by &
😘 = colon followed by *
😞 = colon followed by (
🙂 = colon followed by )
:- = colon followed by -
:_ = colon followed by _
:= = colon followed by =
:+ = colon followed by +
:[ = colon followed by [
:{ = colon followed by {
:] = colon followed by ]
:} = colon followed by }
😕 = colon followed by \
😐 = colon followed by |
:; = colon followed by ;
:: = colon followed by :
:' = colon followed by '
:" = colon followed by "
:, = colon followed by ,
:< = colon followed by <
:. = colon followed by .
😆 = colon followed by >
😕 = colon followed by /
:? = colon followed by ?
:  = colon followed by space

[SomeBuddy]

As I said in my last reply on the menu from LISP thread, maybe the right place for your AutoDesk request in order to remove these smileys is in the  Updates to Autodesk Discussion Groups thread, where it might have a chance to be seen by Eric Wright.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@SomeBuddy wrote:

....maybe the right place for your AutoDesk request in order to remove these smileys is in the  Updates to Autodesk Discussion Groups thread....

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Done.

[SomeBuddy]

Let's cross fingers and hope 🙂

[rkmcswain]

vBulletin and most other forum platforms let you disable smilies on a per-post basis.....

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> most other forum platforms let you disable smilies on a per-post basis

If you use the "Insert Code" button then there are no smilies like this:

(defun C:DONTUSEDCMD()(command "_HELP"))

instead of this (without the "Insert Code")

(defun C:DONTUSEDCMD() (command "_HELP")

- alfred -

PS: sorry for multiple edits 😉

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Alfred.NESWADBA wrote:

....

If you use the "Insert Code" button then there are no smilies ....

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[That may be true now, but was not at the time of the original post.  I have a variety of reasons to dislike code windows, discussed elsewhere, so I don't usually use them.  But some of those may also have changed, and I recently find a new aggravating issue with not using them, that wasn't the case before -- code Ctrl+C-copied out of Notepad and pasted into the "body" of a Post here loses all indentations, but doesn't if pasted into a code window -- so I may start to use them more often.]

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Kent1Cooper wrote:

Do you see Emoticons [Smileys, etc.] embedded in AutoLisp code in this forum?

If you are Signed In, and go to

My Settings / Preferences / Display / Emoticon type

and check the button for "None", you should then not see them when you are Signed In, ....

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If you're finding this years later, you're now [writing in Nov. 2020, but it's been a while] out of luck.  That choice has been eliminated.  Bad....

[marko_ribar]

@Kent1Cooper 

Have you seen this topic, and my report :

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/community-feedback/lisp-was-added-to-the-forum-s-code-snippet-unlocke... 

It seems that no one is able to disable this feature and BTW. I don't know how @CodeDing created that code tag without loosing info...

[devitg]

hI @Kent1Cooper , which letter combination belong to 

:smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

as per 

from 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/sharing-my-matrix-and-fractions-libr... 

[Kent1Cooper]

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@devitg wrote:

.... which letter combination belong to 

‌‌

....

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It's an 8 followed by a right parenthesis.  I opened the file attached there to find out.  [EDIT:  Interesting -- the smiley description part in the code window did not survive being quoted from Message 10.]

[rkmcswain]

Another way to bypass this, if you are the author, is to use the <PRE> tags

(defun C:foo ()
  (* (- (+ 3 8) 18) 38)
)

[marko_ribar]

I have to test it...

[pre]

😎

[/pre]

I just typed [ pre ], than in next line 😎 and last line [ / pre ]... pre signs are typed without spaces...

[marko_ribar]

It didn't work with [] brackets, now with <>...

<pre>

😎

</pre>

[marko_ribar]

Now I'll use code tags with <pre> before and after...

<pre>
8)
</pre>

[marko_ribar]

Well I don't know...

Now I won't do anything, just code tags... Seems that it's working now...

 😎

Yes I added one space before and used General tags...

[marko_ribar]

No it's not working...

Can you elaborate more @rkmcswain that with <pre> tags?

[rkmcswain]

@marko_ribar  - the PRE tags are HTML code. You have to be in the HTML editor.

(defun c:foo ()
  (- (+ 66 38) 18)
)

[rkmcswain]

But of course if you have the graphical editor enabled, it's so much easier to just click the CODE button, and paste your code in. The effect is the same.

(defun c:foo ()
  (- (+ 66 38) 18)
)

[marko_ribar]

OK. One more test for me...

8)

So this button is the trick...