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How do I format code so that it appears with all the indents and everything--as you can't go to the line without posting--and so that it turns shaded in grey?
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I came across this question where the main code block was plainly go code which had been incorrectly inferred to be coffeescript! A second block of error output was labelled as Go code. This makes ...
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(Cross-posted as a bug report to MSE which lists all affected languages found thus far. Please go there to see if a language you've observed being labeled incorrectly is included in the table) I just ...
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The code highlighting here on Stack Overflow appears to be missing a tag for Blazor-like pages where C# and HTML are combined within the same file. Currently, I can only format it as either C# or HTML....
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With the recent UI change, a comment that was written using backticks (inline code), loses those when edited.
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I recently submitted this edit suggestion: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/36801118 It seemed to me to be pretty straightforward. As the name of a system file, /etc/sysctl.conf should ...
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I am trying to respond to a Discussion (pushed upon us by the frustrating comment experiment), and it eats my code. I want to put this code there: # 2. Identify peaks ---- peaks_info <- cardidates::...
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When you edit a question in the Staging Ground to convert a text selection into a multiline code block by using the "Code block" button (or pressing CTRL-M), a code block will be entered ...
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COMMAND and OUTPUT is formatted as italics in this post. I know <pre><code> can be used to format text in code blocks, but that answer uses just a normal code fence ``` ```. Here's the ...
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I would love to have an indent and dedent keys in the new Stacks Editor. This has already been requested for the old markdown editor, but the request seems to have been ignored, and it seems like the ...
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There is an issue where code blocks contain single backticks around every single line, rather than triple fences around the entire code block. This destroys the formatting. An example can be seen in ...
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How do I fix the below format? I keep getting the error: "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code." My code is indented 4 spaces and is between '''codeblock ...
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Has the font in code blocks changed recently? Is this intended? Being exclusively active in the r tag, I'm very irritated by the distracting misalignment of < and -, which together are the ...
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Every day I fix up numerous questions that have multi-line code blocks enclosed in single backticks rather than triple backtick code fences. Or they don't put a newline between the triple backticks ...
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I made an edit to this answer, (changed "unicode" to "str") however when I saved the edit, the code formatting was lost. I quickly reverted the edit, however the code formatting ...
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