Mutiny Community DevNotes Version 5.25 - 2025-09-10

Been a long while since anything new has been implemented.
One of the things I'm trying to do as a sysop is occasionally post in both the chat rooms and the bulletin boards (message bases).  Some people only read one or the other (and some read both).
In the past I've tried various ways to merge those together, like having a message base "front-end" to the chat messages but that didn't work out well.
So I added a simple but very useful feature which lets users cross-post.
This way they can start up a conversation in chat and also in the message bases and it may go off in two directions.

Anyway here is the feature: copy/paste.
Here's how it works:  In the editor you can use "/copy" to copy the text to your "clipboard" (not your computer's clipboard but the BBS will keep it in memory as long as your session is alive).
You can also provide a line number or a range if you don't want to copy everything, like "/copy 5" or "/copy 1-10"
Then when you're back in the editor you can use "/paste".  If you want to insert your copied lines after a specific line (instead of just appending to the end) you can provide the starting line number like "/paste 5"

I used this when cross-posting between the bulletin boards and the Atari chat room about having some fun with my wife and our Atari 2600.

Oh, if you want to start with chat then use "/post" to post a chat message using the editor instead of the single-line (irc-like) method you'd normally use.
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