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What special formatting tricks can be done in the comments now?
Proven:
**text** or __text__ = Bolding = text*text* or _text_ = Italics = texttext[example](http://example.com "title") Inline links with title and texthttp://example.com plain old linksDisproven:
<kbd> (i.e. F12) characters#[text] to increase sizeclick the help link under [add comment] to see a summary of the available formatting options.
] of [link].
@ work to notify commenters?... at least, if it does, for a while now there has been no link to the user's profile as it used to be before whatever change was made... also, there is no special styling to identify the person as, well, a person (as opposed to just characters after a @...)
Nov 26, 2019 at 22:38
The only bad thing is that it counts the markup toward the number of characters. So bolding something means you can actually enter 4 characters less. Of course, this effectively makes the minimum comment length 11.
This is something that is only very recent - see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001285.html for more info.
This was new as of 2009-7-3, there is a comment by Jeff under this answer which was posted on 2009-6-29:
I would really like some of the basic markdown stuff be added, for example
`code highlight` *italic* **bold** ***bold italic***
hey look! italic and bold and some escaped *code* sample – Jeff Atwood♦
I also mentioned it on the 30th:
At least, I would want bold and italic to work.
As for syntax highlighting, you don't get that for simple
inlinedcode sections, so why would you need it in comments.
Which means it had to have been implemented between 2009-6-30 and 2009-7-3.
This micro-ing of the MD format is annoying, because
string hexString = string.Format("{0:X}", -5); long hexValue = long.Parse(hexString, NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);