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Here is my question! A couple of times, I wrote some thing like :

"I'm using a foreach loop"

and someone comes and edits it to:

"I'm using a foreach loop"

I can see the code when I'm editing it but the thing is that on my keyboard (French) I lack this key on my keyboard and I don't see any button to add this sort of quote, how can I do it?

(I did it here with a copy/paste from one of the guys that edited one of my posts but it would be cool if I don't have to always go to my old question and copy/paste the character from him!)

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    Is this your layout? If so, it looks like Alt Gr+7, possibly followed by a space should work. – hammar Dec 5 '11 at 14:32
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There is a keyboard shortcut for code markup:

Ctrl + K

When it is a short segment within a sentence it will add the back ticks ` around the selection. If the selection spans a few lines it will indent them 4 spaces.

An alternative is to type in the full Unicode escape:

Alt + 0096

Or simply use the full <code> tag, as @casperOne mentions:

<code>foreach</code>
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While I prefer Oded's answer (it is the simplest, IMO), it should also be noted that in cases where you don't have a Ctrl key (on a mobile device, for example) or a ` and you can't find the code format button at the top of the editor (or it's not there, because again, you are on a mobile device) you can use the <code> HTML tag inline, like so:

<code>foreach</code>
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  • Oh, can I +10 this? I post a bit from my mobile device, and I'm always forgetting about the <code/> tag so I can do inline code formatting. – Andrew Barber Dec 5 '11 at 14:37
  • @AndrewBarber: I wish you could too, but of course, I'm a bit biased in this situation. =) – casperOne Dec 5 '11 at 14:38
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    @AndrewBarber: I'll donate +1 to your cause, so you just need to find +8 now :P – Matt Dec 5 '11 at 15:38
  • @AndrewBarber: +9, I can't vote on my own post. =) – casperOne Dec 5 '11 at 15:40
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    @AndrewBarber if your mobile device is an iPhone, just hold down the apostrophe, the backtick appears on a pop-up menu. All you then have to worry about is the autocorrect removing the closing backtick for you... – jrturton Dec 5 '11 at 16:34
  • @jrturton I should have included my device type (Android) in my comment. +1 anyway, since an iOS user might find that very useful. – Andrew Barber Dec 5 '11 at 16:36
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    @AndrewBarber: Speaking of iOS, on my iPad the backtick character is a little hard to find on the virtual keyboard. Tap the .?123 key, then tap and hold the apostrophe key until a pop-up menu appears. Backtick is the rightmost character in that menu. – Keith Thompson Jan 17 '12 at 23:40
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the {} button right on the formatting line above the question/answer box. You know, the one that goes B I | [globe+->] [quotes] {}...

I just checked, and it doesn't actually show up on mobile devices... Can we get it there? It would be so useful.

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  • I mentioned it, but in the context where you don't have it (as in the mobile interface). – casperOne Dec 5 '11 at 15:40
  • I missed that, perhaps you should add the {} somewhere. – Kevin Dec 5 '11 at 15:48
  • Did you one better, I linked to your post. – casperOne Dec 5 '11 at 16:34

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