I don't know how to hyperlink previous posts - somebody e-mail me privately when they're done laughing at my ignorance - you know how little time I spend on the internet. :)
James, I can send it to you privately too, but I think that this is a "fair game" Off Topic item. It's so simple that it took me a very long time to figure it out... ;-)
In order to reference your message that I am responding to, I look at the URL bar and see that the last part of the URL is "?msgid=12278198". This message number is a unique number that SI uses for all posts, across all topics. (EDIT: I notice, after posting this message, that it has been assigned message id 12279961 - so there have been 1762 messages posted on SI in between your posting and this one of mine, in the ~10.5 hours overnight since you posted yours)
In order to insert a link into the body of this message, I simply type "#", then I type "reply-", followed by the message number. Personally I don't enjoy typing eight digit numbers (and don't trust myself to not make a mistake!), so I paste that in. Here goes:
James, your previous post is #reply-12278198.
(!!) -- All you do is just type in, as ordinary text, what you see underlined. SI's "magic parser" apparently is smart enough to pick this strings out and convert them into hyperlinks for ya. I also noticed that it has recently taken to opening "external" (outside of SI) hyperlinks in a separate window.
You can also do a similar thing with "Subjects". The way to create a link to this thread is to simply type this: #Subject-10036
How's that? ;-)
- Daniel
P.S. Now if I explain to you how to italicize, bold, and retain preformatted text, I will have told you all my secrets! |
