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"Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code." I have no idea why
I can’t seem to understand what is wrong with the following Markdown content. I keep getting the
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as
code. Please indent all code by 4 ...
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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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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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Still trying to learn some basic formatting -- can I say "click here to skip this section"?
I post mainly to Aviation Stack Exchange. Please let me know if the "chat" feature of ASE, or any other place, would be a better place to ask this question.
I am still in the process of learning ...
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Are there any plans to improve the Answer editor?
The rumors say that you've made a lot of changes to the backend so that you can now easier implement features that has been requested for a long time...
I don't know whether this feature is one of ...
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How to explain abbreviations without the disallowed <abbr> HTML tag?
How can tooltips be currently added to abbreviations as long as the <abbr> HTML tag is unsupported?
Is there a Markdown equivalent or other workaround?
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How to set a no break in keyboard shortcuts?
I'm wondering if it's possible to set a keyboard shortcut reference to be no breakable
Example:
As is:
Keyboard shortcuts are shown in menus, contextual menus and by (on Windows) pressing Ctrl+/
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How do I post code on Stack Overflow fast? [closed]
I tried a lot of different ways, but the only way is manual.
I tried with Ctrl + K and inserted the code, but it's badly rendered, and a lot of text is not inserted into the code.
Is there some ...
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Yellow sections on posts
This is probably a very stupid question, but I'm not too technologically inclined. I see often when someone 's post is containing an excerpt from a book or an article, recommended changes, etc. it's ...
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How to delete the white space in the end of the line?
The is the code :
POST http://api.ltp-cloud.com/analysis/ HTTP/1.1
cache-control: no-cache
Postman-Token: d6172632-c912-43f0-9af7-8a8decd0c0e2
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-...
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Cannot add single line breaks in Questions
I can't seem to add a simple line break in the text of my question (this is on Blender S.E. but happens on other communities as well):
What I am trying to do is make a list where each sentence is on ...
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Markdown editor multiple lists in questions or answers
I have just tried to write an answer that involved writing a couple of ordered lists that reset to "1" for each list (lists of steps to carry out).
However, I couldn't help but notice that whenever I ...
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How to write text in small font [duplicate]
I remember seeing some questions and answers in which some text was written in small fonts, but, I haven't found a matching tag in the whitelisted HTML tags. How did they do this?
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Transferring equations from Word Equation Editor to StackExchange
How do I enter equations produced by Word Equation Editor into StackExchange and have them appear as Professional Format equations? When I try by copying from Word and pasting in StackExchange, they ...
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List line break/spacing format issue
In the following list, what is the proper way to insert a line break before the final element where indicated (courtesy mspaint)?
screenshot http://i.snag.gy/D7EsT.jpg
I expected the above to have ...
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How should I format terminal output? [duplicate]
I want to post some output from a terminal and ask a question. How do you use the editor on Stack Overflow? It says that it must be in code format when I paste it in.
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(tag:tagname) links to Stack Overflow tags, not Meta Stack Overflow tags [duplicate]
Right now, I can use [tag:tagname] almost anywhere on Stack Overflow to link to a tag. On Meta Stack Overflow, I can use the same markup, but it still links to tags on Stack Overflow, and not Meta ...
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How to strike text? [duplicate]
Sorry but I couldn't find this info. How do I strike the text?
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Automatic code formatter (Ctrl+K) changes content
I've recently noticed a disturbing behavior of the code formatting shortcut (Ctrl + K) that seems to be completely invalid. It appears that applying Ctrl + K resulted in content change (which was ...
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What are text format magics on Stack Overflow?
There are some text formats which help us to provide more readable answers, comments, and questions, but I learned them by editing other answers. I don't know where the source is, for example:
code ...
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User interactions with answer posting textarea
When I try to make a particular word or sentence within the post answer text area Bold it looks like this:
my first sentence
But when I try to make more of the sentence bold, e.g.:
my first ...
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Is the complete SO rendering JS available uncompressed?
I have a blog which I've started working on for the first time in a while, and I can't help but notice how often I want to use the SO markup. I don't just mean prettify, I mean using `, __, and * as ...
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Will the WMD repository ever be updated?
If you check out the github repository, the last update was March 2009. Version 3, I guess.
The team has added a lot of changes and fixes over the last two years. Is that the last open source ...
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Stack Overflow wmd editor anti-CSRF
How does Stack Overflow's markdown protect against CSRF attacks? For example, an image generated by markdown like:
![alt text][1]
[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/logout
does not log the user ...
Tomek
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"Inline code" button for the editor
I see bold and italics button but no inline code while it uses quite an uncommon syntax (back ticks, `` - the syntax is good, just not very obvious). It would be convenient to have this button.
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Bad Indentation of Code
I've been seeing many questions and answers with the first line of a method or class indented by a negative amount. I haven't been able to reproduce it. Maybe someone on the team can look at Multi-...
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Clicking "code" and copy/pasting xml (schema) displays only first line
While writing this post I clicked "code" and cut and pasted XML schema into the question. For some reason, all this then displayed was the first line "<?xml. . .". I fixed this by manually ...
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How do I add code when replying to questions on Stack Overflow?
I know the answers for many questions but I can't reply because I don't know where to paste the code.
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How do you indent code in the post editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I format my code blocks?
When writing code in SO, I always press Tab to indent my code. It doesn't work. Instead, I lose focus on the question text area.
To actually ...
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