Questions tagged [code-formatting]
For questions about making code appear correctly in questions, answers and comments.
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Why is my code not shown? [duplicate]
In the following question What is the difference between confidentialPort and securePort for Jetty
I have the following XML snippet:
But what is shown is:
Is this a bug?
I used the code-button {} ...
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How to fix, or document for users: Escaped backtick rendering, in question/answer or comment [duplicate]
Noting this duplication of topic, I hope this question can also address, what else might be easily done?
This is a bug, or should be added to editing notes.
Congratulations you discovered meta._....
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Add syntax highlighting support for Dockerfiles
Highlight.js supports syntax highlighting Dockerfiles, but support is not present on Stack Exchange’s version of highlight.js. Please consider adding support for this.
Example question on Stack ...
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Add syntax highlighting support for Nim
Highlight.js supports syntax highlighting for Nim here. Questions on Stack Overflow for [nim-lang] currently have no highlighting support, and this would be a valued feature for users.
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JavaScript code snippet Tidy function injects a separating space into the null coalesce operator
For JavaScript snippets, the Tidy feature injects a space between the question marks that compose the nullish coalescing operator ??[1].
Example:
Prior to Tidy:
console.log(((a, b) => {
return a ?...
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Add syntax highlighting support for nginxconf
Highlight.js supports syntax highlighting for nginx configuration files, but support is not present on Stack Exchange’s version of highlight.js. Please consider adding support for this.
Example ...
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Syntax highlighting language request: Python REPL
Highlight.js treats Python REPL (the Python interpreter in interactive mode) as its own language separate from Python—it uses the class names python-repl and pycon. I checked Stack Exchange's ...
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What happened to Groovy syntax highlighting?
On Stack Overflow I have answered many questions about Spock and Geb, two Groovy test frameworks. For years, I have used <!-- language: lang-groovy --> in combination with indentation by four ...
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Did the automated CommonMark migration mess up the formatting of this answer?
I suspect the automated CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of this answer.
Before the migration to CommonMark: https://web.archive.org/web/20200515072655/https://unix.stackexchange.com/...
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Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
Update 2020-09-24
This is now live network-wide.
Update
This is now live on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow. Any bugs and feedback can be posted here as an answer.
I’m Ben and I’m a dev ...
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Please remove the horizontal whitespace in the left part of code blocks
With the new post formatting there's extra horizontal whitespace at the left of code blocks (not to be confused with the increased line height).
Before the new formatting:
Now (red circle shows the ...
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Unable to differentiate between code and hyperlinks with code formatting on mobile site
This is a follow up of my earlier question Hyperlinks in code formatting no longer follows site color.
The links in code formatting on mobile site aren't underlined which worsens the above situation ...
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Hyperlinks in code formatting no longer follows site color
Earlier code used to follow site colors, for example,
Orange on Ask Ubuntu[Click on image to open corresponding cached page/post]
:
and blue on Unix & Linux
But now they no longer follow site ...
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Request for a possibility to adjust the spacing between lines
Update: The line-height in code blocks is almost back to what it was before (it was 1.3 but is now 1.30769231) and the spacing between lines in regular text is now at 1.5 (it was 1.3 before the change)...
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Can we warn users if the first line of a code block is silently discarded if placed on the same line as ```?
Here's an example. If a user types following into the question box:
```#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!\n";
}
```
It will look like this:
int ...
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Should Ctrl+K in the editor use the code fences instead of indentation?
Now that the Stack Exchange network has switched to CommonMark, some features appear to be deprecated. In particular, comment-style language hints may eventually stop working. So instead of using 4-...
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How to “prettify” my coments [duplicate]
How can I format my comments? For example, I've pasted a few lines of code (with new lines, spaces etc.) but it looks very ugly.
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Markdown inconsistency between preview and post when using blank lines [duplicate]
This happened in an answer on Code Golf.SE, where we have all sorts of uncommon programming languages to put in a code block.
OP's code is copied here at the markdown level:
bbcccbc-cc-b--b-- c
b
&#...
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Does <Shift> + <Enter> create lists automatically if the line starts with a dash or a bullet?
I just noticed that if you have some text and you add a dash in front of the first character, then when you hit Shift + Enter before any character in the text, then it gets rendered as a list.
This ...
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Extra newline risks running unwanted commands [closed]
Triple-clicking on a code block like the ones here highlight the line with an additional newline at the end. When the user copies and pastes it into the terminal the extra newline results in the ...
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Provide a proper way to indicate error messages that is visually distinct from quotes and actual code
Error messages are a fairly common thing to mention, in both questions and answers, across many Stack Exchange communities. I think it would be valuable to have a markdown syntax to denote error ...
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Code formatting error message dispenses no-longer-true advice, and doesn't indicate what to do in case of false positives
On four sites in the network, there is a code formatting filter that checks for users pasting in code but not formatting it correctly. When it is triggered, it says the following:
Your post appears ...
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How to avoid the 'not properly formatted as code' alert
I've been trying for many hours to post a question in Mathematica Stack Exchange and I always get the following warning
I've done the indentation but did not work (though in the preview looks ...
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Appearance of numbers for an ordered list element starting with a code block
These:
1. ```
foo
bar
baz
bad
```
2. foo
bar
baz
bad
Render as:
foo
bar
baz
bad
foo
bar
baz
bad
Screenshot:
I am pretty sure the list numbers were aligned ...
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Why does this post show ``` at the end of a code block?
Here is a post on Game Development Stack Exchange which uses the newish fenced code blocks, i.e. the ones starting and finishing with a triple backquote:
```
[insert code here]
```
As you can see, ...
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Answer comment cells need text formatting
I noticed certain keywords for text formatting are ignored in the app, e.g. code tags
See attached image for reference.
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: iPhone 7 Plus
OS Version: Version 13.3.1 (Build ...
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How to write a ` symbol inside a code block [duplicate]
How can I write this symbol: ` inside a code block in just one line?
As the code blocks are defined by: ```, I am not able to write one of these inside the code block.
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Fenced code markdowns in posts before 2019 doesn't render correctly
This answer on Ask Ubuntu was posted in October 2016. The last revision was made then only and there answerer used fenced code markdown (```) which at that moment wasn't introduced on Stack Exchange. ...
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How can I explicitly show the return value of a code snippet/sample
Is there an commonly accepted way (best practice if you wish) to show the return value of example code in markdown?
One solution is to add a comment at the end of the function, but I am concerned ...
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Cannot post my question because of code formatting [closed]
I tried to post a question on the Mathematica forum, I spend a hour writting it correctly and I have the following error when I want to submit it : "Your post appears to contain code that is not ...
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How to switch off syntax highlight in cited code? [duplicate]
Suppose some code snippet that appears to be some specific syntax like C in this case, and I want to format it like plain text:
```
#include <code>
```
On stackexchange, this will be rendered ...
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Link to line in code snippet
When sharing code from Github with people, I can get a link to the exact line, which helps with clarity when I'm bringing attention to something specific. I would like to do the same when linking ...
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Fold a big chunk of text in a question
Is it possible to fold a big chunk of text in a question?
In my case I need to paste this html into this question.
I need this, because, the big chunk of text is relevant for the question, but is ...
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Preventing word-breaking in flowed paragraphs
In questions and answers, I would sometimes like to keep a whole string together, to avoid what's happening to the string [![:print:]] here:
Is there a trick to avoid breaking a short string?
In ...
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Why am I getting a “code not properly formatted” error?
I know this question is asked a lot, but I looked at those answers and don't see an obvious place where that would apply to my post. I'm trying to post the following to Stack Overflow, but it won'...
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Why doesn't the syntax highlighting work?
I tried several ways of how to do syntax highlighting for R in this question, but it doesn't work. I tried ```R (see revision 3 of the question) and <!-- language: R --> (see revision 2) but ...
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Why aren't runnable code snippets formatted correctly within lists?
Consider the following code snippet.
console.log("this line is all right");
console.log("but this line is indented");
This should be a part of the same bullet point but it's not.
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Where is the list of language names supported by the markdown fenced code blocks?
Related to Implement ```-style (fenced) Markdown code blocks
On this answer I used ```makefile and it is "working" the highlighting:
However, on this other answer, I am also using ```makefile and it ...
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How do you type `\` inside a codeblock in chat?
I showed someone in the Bridge how to make a shrug emoji (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and while discussing the use of backticks, code blocks and backslashes in markdown, I realized that it's impossible to type ...
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The code after crossing the number of lines limit is masked
I noticed that in the Stack Exchange Android app, when the posted code crosses the normal limit of number of lines to be shown, the rest of the code gets masked with white color rather than hiding the ...
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Swift multiline strings are not formatted correctly [duplicate]
Swift multiline strings that contain quotation marks, such as:
let multilineString =
"""
"let myString = 123"
is part of my multiline string
"""
are formatted ...
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Why is double space replaced by single space when enclosed in backticks in comments?
I was trying to put a small line of code in a comment, but I noticed that the multiple spaces in the comment enclosed in backticks(`) were replaced with single ones.
To make it clear, I wrote this as ...
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Chat removes ´ when trying to type code to someone
I am not sure if this should be a bug report or a feature request.
I am trying to help someone and I keep trying to type
`name` `=` 'Group project drive'
but the ´ are being removed making it hard ...
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How to type italics or bold inside code in a comment
How can you put italics or bold inside code in a comment?
For example, to produce normal italic in a comment I've tried
`normal _italic_`
`normal `_`italic`_
<code>normal _italic_</code>
...
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Which elements are recommended to enclose in <code> tag within the description in Stack Overflow? [closed]
Enclosing code/text elements in the code tag varies user to user. For example, one user put 'decimal' inside the code tag. Then another user edited the post and put it as simple text. Such types of ...
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How to preserve a TAB character in a string?
I want to preserve the TAB character in a string, because I want to give an example input that contains a TAB. Then users can copy that string and use it. But it seems like StackExchange always ...
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Display issue of three-backticks formatted code
I came across an answer on Stack Overflow whose code is formatted with triple backticks (AKA CommonMark / GitHub style / ```), that layouts weirdly:
When I edit the question, the preview looks ...
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Inserting code method should be changed
I realize this suggestion would affect only the Stack Exchange sites that use code as part of their questions. However, since my suggestion would involve a re-code, if it's accepted, I thought it best ...
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Code sample button to insert code fences with backticks by default
At least on stackoverflow, new users tend insert their code using the {} "code sample" button in the formatting bar, which uses 4 spaces to pad the code.
And I've seen several times when that ...
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Don't show how to format code when I'm not on a programming site [duplicate]
Instructions on how to format code are the first thing you see under "How to Format" when asking a question, which is great, except when you're on a site that isn't about programming:
► create code ...
