Re: comments plugin

On 12/24/2010 07:19 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Guys, I'm fighting with the comments plugin and have some questions:
> 
> * who still has a copy of magicwords.py? the reference to it has been 
>   removed from git 2 years ago, and i can't find the plugin anywhere
>   online.
>   http://gitorious.org/pyblosxom/pyblosxom-web/commit/20c41ad28f2c42b5cdb3ad34eb46fbb386bbd507
>   preferrably a recent version, i'm running (trying to) PB 1.5

I don't think I've ever heard of that plugin.


> * can I prohibit users from using the nickname 'Dieter_be', my full
>   name, a hostname on my domain, etc in the name/url/e-mail fields?

I don't know what you mean by "prohibit".  You can probably write a
rejection plugin that does this.  There are examples out there.


> * can users use a title in their comment? I see there is a title
>   field, which is used as some kind of spam prevention (it holds the
>   title of the entry), but it seems silly (redundant and useless) to
>   store this in the actual xml of the comment

Not that I know of.


> * does anyone have code for working threaded (nested) comments? i.e.
>   the ability to reply to a specific comment and render comments as
>   such.

I don't think this is possible with the current comments plugin.  It's a
feature I think is sorely missing and one of the reasons I'd like to
write a new one someday.


> * is it possible to show "validition warnings" when a comment is not
>   accepted?  when i try to make comments and i "forget" a field like
>   'Name', the comment will be silently dropped, forcing me to fill in
>   everything again, and hoping it's better the n+1th try.
>   i would expect the new page contains all my text but error messages
>   for the appropriate fields.  Also, fieldnames in bold for mandatory
>   stuff would be useful. (although i can easily just hack that in the
>   template)

Now that I know of.

/will

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