Questions tagged [editing-help]
For questions about the Markdown editing help page, which lists the elements of Markdown syntax which can be used to format posts on Stack Exchange.
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What formatting example should replace "his suicide note" in the Markdown help?
In the Markdown help page, the Code and Preformatted Text example is:
printf("goodbye world!"); /* his suicide note
was in C */
It also happens to be the ...
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How can I format as keyboard keys? [duplicate]
Some answers contain characters that look like keyboard keys. They look like
Ctrl + E
What markup do I need to add to make Ctrl and E look like actual keys?
That's not mentioned in the formatting ...
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Add "paragraphs" to Markdown help
Like balpha once explained very nicely, a <br> line break (newline) should be used
in very few cases, and surely is not the same as a new <p> paragraph. Still the Markdown help only ...
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Markdown help page is broken (badly presented/formatted) on every site
In the Markdown help I see:
Is that what the help is supposed to say and look like? Because it doesn't make sense to me.
As animuson points out in a comment, all of the highlighted example text is ...
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Could the Help be better? (code section)
I think that the help should be the most clear thing. I'm about to suggest an edit to the Code section in the Markdown Help, because:
It's lacking to mention an imporant feature: how to apply 4 space ...
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Change comment help for link markdown
This is the help for comments:
Comments use mini-Markdown formatting: [link](http://example.com)
_italic_ **bold** `code`. The post author will always be notified of your comment. To also notify ...
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Please update the editing help
I only recently learned about a new feature to insert those fancy tags into your post.
I didn't know what the exact syntax was. It was only now that I needed it myself, and I've been searching like a ...
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In the inline comment help, please mention that only one @reply is allowed
There's a new inline comment help. That's great. It also explains who will be notified of comments. That's great too. But the wording doesn't clearly exclude a common newbie mistake: it's not apparent ...
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Link to "Editing Help" is located under its image
When you're asking a question on SO there's a "Editing help" link above and right.
However, the link is not on top of the image. I'm using firebug in the image below to mark where the link is.
This ...
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Can we add how to disable syntax highlighting to the editing help (FAQ)?
Syntax highlighting for code has a long section about syntax highlighting but it fails to mention how to disable it.
I guess one can use "lang-none" as a language code (it's listed in Interface ...
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How do I edit an edit that is still in peer review?
Say, I've edited a question asked by someone. I submitted my edit, and then realize I could have made few more changes. Now I want to edit my previous edit. How can this be done? (If it can be done?)
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Update the Markdown help to reflect the modern realities of Stack Exchange 2.0
On technical sites, the Markdown help page rightly begins with guidance on formatting code. But the page is reused on non-technical sites where code formatting is either completely unnecessary or co-...
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Please include how to quote backticks in inline code in Markdown editing help
I've seen this happen a few times: "code 'with' backticks (replace quotes with backticks!!!)"
I also had to do some digging to find out for myself that the correct way to do this: code `with` ...
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Comment formatting FAQ does not mention notification-stripping
The comment notification FAQ does not mention that notifications will be stripped from comments in some cases.
This is confusing because the line length limit takes effect after removal of ...
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Please list code highlighting before bold and italics in Stack Overflow's editing help
When editing the body of a question, "How to Format" has
► put returns between paragraphs
► for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
► _italic_ or **bold**
► indent code by 4 spaces
► backtick escapes `...
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Add shorthand links for MathOverflow and all non-English Stack Overflow sites to comment formatting help page
The editing help for comments currently lists a few shorthand links which can be used to link to other sites:
[so], [pt.so], [su], [sf], [metase], [a51], [se] – link to the given site. Link text is ...
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Extra space in formatting tips for HTML + Markdown
There is an extra space in formatting tips for the text editor:
The text inserted as is produces the following:
Markdown works * fine* in here.
But we're expecting italic style for "fine" ...
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List of languages for syntax highlight [duplicate]
When putting some code sections into SO questions, the system tries to detect the language and automagically colorizes the code but sometimes if the excerpt of code is small enough it cannot get the ...
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Please clarify syntax highlighting example in help to include empty line before markup
As a follow-up to a question about why disabling syntax highlighting did not work I'd like to propose to include or change at least one example in the existing editing help to include the empty line ...
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Markdown editing help should mention something about the extra brackets which appears when posting images [closed]
There has been a small change implemented when posting images. There will be some extra brackets.
Currently, the markdown editing page (eg: Stack Overflow) does not mention anything about this ...
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@ not required anymore to reply in comments
It seems that the @JohnDoe is not required anymore to reply in a comment and notify JohnDoe, even if JohnDoe only wrote a comment on the post (JohnDoe is not the answer writer). Am I right?
If so, ...
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