Questions tagged [code-formatting]
For questions about making code appear correctly in questions, answers and comments.
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How should I represent/display pseudo code in Stack Exchange?
This semester I'm attending a course on Algorithms and Data Structures. I will probably have a few questions to post to Computer Science or Mathematics. The slides of my teacher use math symbols such ...
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When someone adds a "language identifier" to a code block does the specified syntax highlighting show in the "suggested edits" "queue"?
When I edit someone's code block with a language identifier:
Example:
from:
```
def py
```
to:
```python
def py
```
Is that change reflected in the Suggested edits queue in the Inline or side-by-...
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Please allow to edit questions that are mostly code [duplicate]
There are some low-quality questions that consist mostly of wrongly formatted code. When trying to format it correctly (i.e., code actually becomes code), you get a notification that "your" ...
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Add full screen button to code blocks
I suggest adding a "Full screen button" underneath code blocks.
For example in this post:
I get java.lang.VerifyError using FontAwesome in JavaFX
The first code block, "Error", is ...
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Markdown characters in code both shown and rendered as markdown
With certain syntax colourings active (for example "apl" but not "c"), and for certain specific characters, symbols that have meaning in markdown are visible while also causing ...
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I am being incorrectly told that "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code." Please can I have more specific feedback?
I've been trying for about 30 minutes to work out what on earth in my message the system is mistaking for code, and every time I press submit and it tells me vaguely "oh I think there's code in ...
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Erroneous "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code" error
I spent more than an hour trying to fix the formatting of the question below such that the Mathematica and Wolfram Language forum would accept it. I had no success, even though I am aware of threads ...
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Quote button shouldn't reformat code in triple-backticks
I've seen Blockquote rewrap destroys code, but that question (and answer) are about the situation where a user mistakenly uses the quote button instead of the code button.
I instead want to use both. ...
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Some lines of code block are bold when the question has at least two language tags
We've found this problem in this question on Stack Overflow in Portuguese, but I've also tested in other sites (English and Spanish SO's), and it happened there as well.
In the aforementioned ...
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I need help and the site is not letting me post my code. Says “Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code.”
I am trying to learn React and there's a concept that I'm feeling pretty stuck on. I was hoping someone could help me and I've been trying to put effort into making a question post detailing my ...
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Triple backticks code formatting doesn't show up in the suggested-edits queue on side-by-side mode
I just noticed that answers (I don't know about the questions), that used triple backticks codes in the body, don't show up in the suggested-edits review queue on side-by-side mode. Instead it shows ...
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Bug in Stack Overflow Markdown rendering when code follows a list [duplicate]
Code following a list, though not to be included in the list itself, is not correctly rendered, as shown below.
I have tried inserting linebreaks, to no avail. Inserting "dummy" text will ...
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Prefer code fences or indenting? [duplicate]
Personally, code fences are cleaner (less whitespace) and are parsed more quickly due to the ability to hint at the language via cpp,lang-none,js, etc.
Other than requiring indenting to use code in ...
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Why does copying a code block line contain a trailing newline?
Using macOS and Chrome, triple clicking a line to select and copy in a code block results in a trailing newline. When pasting a command into a shell, this results in the cursor being placed on a line ...
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Code marked as deleted does not look good in side by side markdown view in dark mode
Can't see deleted code
I have come across a situation in dark mode. This is a serious contrast problem according to the following preview:
It is too expensive to distinguish the text from the ...
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Revisions list Code Block stretches screen
bug
See the revision histories here:
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46344443/revisions
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/posts/383658/revisions
The long code blocks page-stretch, as opposed to ...
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Incorrect preview of fenced code block within an ordered list
The preview for a fenced code block within an ordered list:
This is the actual result after posting:
The fenced code block turned into inline code! The preview is wrong.
1.
scheme (doc id: 1 title: &...
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How to disable syntax highlighting in Markdown fenced code blocks [duplicate]
For indented code blocks, adding <!-- language: lang-none --> disables syntax highlighting. What about for fenced code blocks? Can I use lang-none or none in fenced code blocks too?
Which of the ...
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Please have same background color for indented code and inline code
In this answer I included both indented code, and an inline codeblock. (Yes you may blame me for abusing code make-up for something that isn't technically code)
They both have a different shade of ...
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Option to format and view C and C++ code with ClangFormat [closed]
I want an option to render blocks of code found in questions and answers, with ClangFormat, so I can read the C++ and C code in the style I deem appropriate.
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How do I force Stack Snippets to render as a code block?
Usually, posting blocks of code on Stack Exchange websites is very simple:
You can indent everything by 4 spaces.
Both lines are indented by 4 spaces.
or
```
You can start and end the code ...
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On some sites, the closing fence is visible if post ends immediately after a code block that has an empty line
Example here:
The issue goes away if a trailing line break is added.
A minimal reproduction of the bug:
Ask on Code Golf
Enter "```\ncode\n\nmore\n```" so the input field looks like:```
...
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How can I automatically edit all my answers and questions so that no quotes are broken down?
The CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of many of my posts. Specifically, one common issue is that my quotes are now broken down, e.g.:
instead of
Screenshots taken from https://stats....
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Markdown renderer changes indentation inside fenced code blocks
On some (but not all!) sites, code fenced blocks (but not indented code blocks!) are indented incorrectly. The following Markdown input:
```
for arg; do
if [[ $arg ]]; then
echo "$...
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Rendering bug with backslash and dollar sign on MathJax-enabled sites
Typing
`\$`
on a MathJax-enabled site renders
\\\$
instead of the expected
\$
On the preview, the rendering is also wrong, but it only renders \\$, as can be seen in the following screenshot:
This ...
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Erroneous "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code"?
I just read Stack Overflow won't let me post code, I don't have proper "formatting"? because I get the same error message. However, all code etc is marked as code in my post, see the ...
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Is it possible to copy formatted text from Stack Overflow posts/answers, i.e. colors, fonts, etc.?
I'm attempting to copy and then paste code examples from existing Stack Overflow posts into personal documentation which I often end up using Word to paste into. I find that I often am having to copy ...
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Stop guessing/auto-detecting a language when you KNOW it will be incorrect
The problem: SE asks Highlight.js to auto-detect the language when it knows there is no optimal/correct choice for us to make - resulting in very poor outcomes.
Disclaimer: I say this as the current ...
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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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Where should I upload code which is too long to get posted? [duplicate]
I put a bounty on another question and someone answered, but the answer contains a .zip file, because Stack Exchange has a limit on the maximum post length and the code exceeds that.
Problem: The .zip ...
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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 ...
asked Jul 2 '20 at 11:02
fedorqui 'SO stop harming'
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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 ...
