Linuxquestions newbie question: Linking to threads or posts within LQ.
 

This isn't so much a Linux newbie question as a Linuxquestions newbie question, and I've been here for three and a half years...

I'm pretty sure that there's a way to link back to a thread, or even an individual post within LQ, without specifying the full URL, but I have no idea how to make that happen. Come to think of it, I don't even know where I would look to find that out.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Funny - I just did it for the first time yesterday.

1) Copy the link into your buffer.
2) When you are posting a message type a word or phrase for your link.
3) Then highlight the word or phrase.
4) Click on the little earth symbox with a chain link on it in the editing bar (the same bar that allows you to put code and quote on things).
5) A box will pop up to insert the link into - paste the one you copied earlier (step 1).

This will put URL tags with the actual link and the word or phrase you chose in the edit screen. In the display after posting though people will only see the word or phrase as a link.

The word "here" in below example is the one I highlighted.

For example the link to your post is here.

Hmm. I already knew how to do that. I thought that I had seen something similar to a wiki link at some point, which just showed the thread number [for instance, if you look in the URL above, the thread number is 771132]. It's possible that someone used the linking that you did, and had the thread number as the link text...

I guess so: Thread 771132

Do you mean the link that is created when you quote someone? So, for example, the quote above has [QUOTE=jlightner;3769148] at the beginning of it. Which links back to post #4.

So when you click on the arrow icon, it brings you to post 3769148. The link is an icon instead of text.

I think that this is probably what I was referring to... I wonder if that works cross thread, like so:

Yep. That worked. The semantics of it is a little strange because the link only works if there's quoted text (any text will do).

p.s. jiobo, how did you get the comments to nest like that? whenever I quote someone who has quoted someone else, the quoting only goes one level deep.

Because I used the [quote... bit when the original text was quoted all the quotes closed. I think.

Ah. That sounds about right {Barton saves the post and inspects}...

{edit}...yep. That worked.