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Indicator for width (length of lines) in code boxes
It is generally agreed that posted code is best formatted so that the horizontal scroll is not required for the code box in most cases and for most users.
I have conducted surveys here and on Meta ...
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Toggleable Code Blocks [duplicate]
One nice feature would be if the source code was automatically hidden when the question is too big, and clicking on something be able to make the code visible.
In this question people are asking a ...
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1st post rejected: “Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code”
Trying to post answer to this question: WinDbg x64: Cannot debug a crash dump - failed to load data access DLL
Get this message:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted ...
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Syntax highlighting when viewing code in Android app
When I view question/answer, you can see the code blocks with syntax highlighting. But if I click on the code block to be able to horizontally scroll, all syntax highlighting is lost and the text ...
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Allow code snippets to use more screen width
I understand, from reading other Meta questions on this topic, that the StackOverflow administrators have good reasons for keeping the site to a fixed-width layout. However, one disadvantage of this ...
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Should log snipplets and firebug header dumps be wrapped in code block?
Should the log fragments and firebug traffic dumps be wrapped in code block instead of quote block?
I was used to wrap them in quote blocks, which sounds more intuitive for me, but recently I wasn't ...
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Should code blocks and images be collapsible [duplicate]
Should they be collapsible?
Sometimes, users will paste a lot of different blocks of code because they don't know where the problem is. Which makes it hard for the rest of the community to read the ...
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Should Stackexchange switch to ACE Editor?
There is an Open Source code editor called ACE.
It is used in Github gist right now.
One feature they have that I love is box shaped text selection.
(ALT+Click drag to use)
This is hyper-useful ...
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Code blocks are not explained in chat faq
While looking over the stackoverflow chat faq I noticed that it does not explain how to use code blocks when multi line is used.
It would be nice if there was a little description for users about ...
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How to fix a single character typo in a code sample? [duplicate]
I just wanted to fix a code sample which had a single character missing. However I can't do this because the minimum edit is 6 characters.
Can we make the checker smarter by allowing single character ...
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How can I write nested code on a nested list with markdown? [duplicate]
I need to write a nested code block on a sub element of a list.
My list look like
1. element 1
1. element 2
1. element 3, this has subelements
1. sub element 1
1. sub element 2 this one ...
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Pound Sign not in a code block causes layout issue
I ran across this post which was originally posted with the error message/log details that were not placed in a code block.
Before it was in a code block, it caused the text to overflow to the right ...
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“Select all” for code blocks [duplicate]
Frequently I've found it necessary to highlight an entire code block (usually to copy elsewhere):
here is code
here is more code
here be dragons
but the only way to do it seems to be to highlight ...
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Code block tools
It would be great to add some "tools" to code blocks. For example:
Select all
Copy to clipboard
Expand
Collapse
I also think sometimes a code block is just too big and it would be nice to ...
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<code> tag doesn't text highlight
I noticed the other day that two nearly identical answers to a question were slightly different.
The first one (the accepted answer) uses four spaces. The second answer (highest non-accepted answer, ...
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Fiddel-style sandbox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Custom jsFiddle for Stack Overflow
I've noticed that more and more questions use fiddel to demonstrate their problem, and more and more answers have links to a fiddel as ...
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Bold / Italics in codeblocks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bold code in a question
Allow highlighting certain bits of a code fragment or quote
Am I missing something? Can one not put either bold or italics inside codeblocks / ...
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Should code segment edits be allowed?
There's an answer here which could benefit from the code being in a code segment, but I can't modify it because it's only whitespace characters. Even changing the "$3" to be $3 is only two ...
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“Code sample” button not working with (numbered) lists [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can the code button in the format bar be made to work for code blocks in numbered lists
I want to use a code block in a list. But the code block does not get rendered ...
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How can I add a scrollbar to a code block?
How can I add a scrollbar to a code block when the code has long lines? For an example, look at the code block of this question.
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Way to expand code block
Is there a way for a reader (not the OP) to expand a scrollable window containing source code in a question? I sometimes have difficulty understanding a block of code because I can't see it all at ...
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How to escape the angled brackets (“<”, “>”) in a code block?
Writing a question including a C code in a <pre><code> block, I found out that in my #include lines the header names are not displayed when using the standard <name.h> convention. ...
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Make use of full screen width (sample code in Safari) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can SO have a fluid vs. fixed-width layout?
Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers
I use Safari, and quite often the right part of code ...
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Encourage Questions to Include Code Samples
I know this has been noted before, but it's amazing how often people ask questions about code that's not working without sharing the code. And when they share code, it's often insufficient (which ...
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How can I use 'code blocks' for individual words?
I have seen users use code blocks
Such as this
in many posts, but in the middle of a sentence only on one word. I can't for the life of me figure out how they did it.
Surprisingly, I searched ...
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Highlighting same string in code blocks on selection of a string
This is a feature request for SO sites. I would like to have highlighting of all strings which match the selected string in code examples.
A number of IDEs and editors have a facility where if I ...
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Print a stackoverflow page with long code block cropped
The long code block will be stored in a scroll-able box. And printing will crop the code.
A workaround is switching to mobile view (by click the "mobile" at the bottom of the page). However, it ...
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Why is the code syntax color highlight gone in the mobile view?
The code block on a phone or tablet is only black/white.
Update: example
The code in the following link will have syntax color highlight in desktop browser.
MVP Framework for winforms
Here is the ...
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Using Safari 5.1.4, code blocks are empty on Stack Overflow
Code blocks on Stack Overflow (lines beginning with 4 whitespaces) with Safari v5.1.4 are empty/blank (even with the inspector, indicating it's populated via javascript). If I use another browser ...
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Add a check to make sure a question doesn't start with code
Came across this today how can i check the time and date are available using sql in jsp? cry
Can a check not be added so that questions are not allowed to be asked if they start with code and/or must ...
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Add “view as text” option for code, to circumvent copy/paste problems
When you go to 'copy' code from any of the pages, then 'paste' it in Notepad (or another text editor), it all comes out on one line, and has to be re-formatted.
Did the designers ever think of ...
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Warn user when their code is larger than 80 characters
Scrolling horizontally is hard. Warning someone that posts code that is larger than 80 characters against the readability problem this causes would be a solution to avoid then from the start.
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Font adjustment for certain parts of Stack Overflow
The Consolas font, which the CSS sets as the preferred font for the code blocks on Stack Overflow, looks exceedingly terrible on my machine (it's my favourite font on Windows, but on Linux... blech).
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Provide a means to not “scrollbar” code that's only a few lines too long
Many times I enter code into SO questions and answers (obviously!) that is only a little bit longer than the threshold that will activate the right-side scroll bar.
This makes it rather annoying that ...
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Should we have code block feature in chat?
I was trying to explain a part of a code through chat, and I noticed that there was no way to post code blocks in the chat interface. Although I agree that large codes are rarely posted in the chat ...
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The bug that won't go away: “all code” questions are *still* possible
I just saw yet another question which is just a huge block of code. How did this get around the upgraded filter? The entire body of the question is here:
public class ArrayDuplicates
{
...
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Is there a way to make the text in the code section highlighted? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bold code in a question
I have seen this question, which is very old (december 2009).
Are there any updates to it? Is it now possible to mark a line in the code ...
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Please make blockquotes more visually distinct from code blocks on SO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Improving Blockquote style
This is a small request only, and easy to do. :)
Currently blockquotes and code blocks are rendered as virtually indistinguishable gray ...
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Why are the colors in code formatting sometimes wrong?
The third code block in this question has the right colors - attribute names are red and the values are blue; whereas in this other question colors for the same tokens are black and brown, why is ...
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Code block scrolls to where there is no content
I'm not sure if this is possible to fix, but I'll describe it anyway. On a question Calculate correct values to use in layout_weight? if I press my mouse's scroll button down on the code block, I can ...
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How to handle regex syntax highlighting?
Many questions about regex include code blocks with language agnostic, POSIX compatible patterns, using default prettifying. (example)
This looks kind of ugly and is confusing, since some parts are ...
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Code block not escaping html?
Consider the following code block:
#include
It's only showing #include, but what I've typed in the code block is #include <yajl/yajl_parse.h>. So, the < is not being escaped properly.
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Start new lines of code block with same indent as previous line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Automatic code reindent button
AutoIndent of Source Code
I realize that you can already indent code blocks with the 'code sample' button or ctrl+K, but that's ...
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Seeing code text in bold or regular fonts
Is it possible to make an option in user prefs to turn off seeing code text in bold for people who aren't used to or want to read it as a bold text?
Here's what I see in FF4 on Windows XP SP3
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Why does a code block with a horizontal scroll bar get so tall? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Code that is too long to display on a single line creates a massive vertical code block
I just recently noticed that when a code block gets a horizontal scroll bar in ...
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Code that is too long to display on a single line creates a massive vertical code block
If you write some code on one line which is too long for the code block to display in one, it usually, if I remember correctly, would just add a scroll bar to the bottom. Seemingly this has changed as ...
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Resizable text blocks?
Ever since I've updated from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4, I love how many of the big text input blocks can be resized. Adding comments doesn't have to feel so cramped and editor windows could be widened ...
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Post `\` or `\\` in a comment
I wanted to add to an answer that \ should be escaped but I didn't manage to put this in a comment.
When I did:
`\`
then it didn't display the \, and:
`\\`
causes it to only display one \ ...
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how to put code [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I format my code blocks?
hey!! how do i put my code in this question window... am new to this i donno, pls help...
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Long code snippets that are relevant to the question
Sometimes there's need for including large chunks of data/code in a question. (See comments to the question: the OP tried to include a couple of long XML files, but that wasn't possible.)
What's the ...
