Hey

I'm writing a new textboard that will revolutionize all textboards!

It is being written in the revolutionary programming language called Perl

This is what i have so far:


#!/usr/bin/perl
1;

Markup choice

Right now i am being inclined to a combination of sexpcode and markdown.

After trying them for a while, i found this comfortable to type. Now i am coding this and see how it goes

(All these works only on column 1)
: This will create a header (no multilevel headers. I'm keeping this intentionally simple)
+ Item List
++ Item List level 2
+++ Etc
> green text
# purple text


These are free to type anywhere
[b]
[i]
[u]
[h hidden] (AKA spoilers)
[sup]
[sub]

[code(end='\n]')
some source code
]

Yes, some will have parameters. In the case of code, end is showing the default value for it, meaning that a new line plus a closing ] indicates the end of the code block. Notice that there is NO space between code and the opening parenthesis.


[do action]
This will allow your post to trigger some specific action on posting. Example
[do dice]
This will throw a 6 side dice and print its value. (A nice replacement for trips i guess)


>>1 Points to post1
>>1:2 Points to heading 2 in post 1
>>1.3 Points to paragraph 3 in post 1


[table(title="this shows some data" separator="|" header="1" start="[" end="]")
[Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3]
[ data1 | data2 | data3 ]
[ data4 | data5 | data6 ]
]


Since this has no JS there is no way to do markup except by typing it. So is imperative to keep it as simple as possible with sane defaults. Like >>1 for quick replies