Add CharMap (or at least - arrows) to EDITOR [duplicate]

Question

In many cases, we have to make a special attention to specific part of code, and Arrows are great way for that. Is it possible, that CharMap (or at least several SpecialSymbols were added into post EDITOR (for Superuser, Stackoverflow and several other coding SO sites)? so, we can quickly insert those symbols/arrows into answer.

(Btw, or there could be a way to mark the part of code which should cause more attention to it... i.e. making the color of the word RED and BOLDED)

p.s. why you thought that i am including them in questions? I said while Answering to questions, it is usable for. So, it's not me who uses these chars, but any of answer-er.

Answer 1

Markdown can already add emphasis to formatted code blocks. It's not obvious or entirely trivial, but the basic method involves putting the code block (without the usual extra leading indent, and with all < and > properly HTML-entity-encoded) inside nested <pre>+<code> tags, then using HTML emphasis, usually both <b> and <i> together. It looks something like this:

You should change the values (see emphasis)

<script
jQuery('.mySender123 input[type="submit"]').foo();

As you can see, this allows syntax highlighting to work as well. The Markdown source for that looks like this:

<pre><code>&lt;script
jQuery('<b><i>.mySender123</i></b> input[type="submit"]').foo();</code></pre>

I would also recommend that you follow Tensibai's advice to make your descriptions more, well, descriptive. Formatting is a convenient shortcut, but it's not a perfect substitute for simple instruction. Adding extra UI features for a rarely-used and dubiously-helpful technique is not a good strategy in general. Everything in the UI needs to pull its own weight and be very common.

Finally, there are tools you can use to make inserting arrows easier for yourself. Consider ClipX + its Stickies plugin to allow simple Ctrl + Shift + V, A pasting of an arrow character, or modify any of several userscripts that adds toolbar buttons to insert an arrow at the cursor instead of whatever the script originally did.

Answer 2

Your example is a bad answer example. You should not say

You should change the values(see arrows)

but

You shoud review the value you're passing as first argument to jQuery, .mySender123 is wrong here because ...".

No need for arrows or emphasis in the code, you write a better answer as you name the value and give some back up on why this should be changed.

If the code block is large and you have multiple points of attention to raise, put it as a whole for overall explanation and then copy the chunks needing more details and explain them one by one.