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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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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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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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Make the post editor { } button use code fences instead of indent syntax
At least on Stack Overflow, new users tend to insert their code using the { } "code sample" button in the formatting bar, which uses 4 spaces to pad the code and create a code block.
However,...
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Code block with more than 81 characters adds a newline if preceded with spaces
The standard editor for posts seems to have problem with non-word-breakable code blocks above a certain length.
If such a 'word' is present in the editor, inserting spaces before it to create a code ...
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Bug: Add code in an ordered list [duplicate]
Prologue
It seems this is a duplicate of an almost 6 year request. Fair enough, though I think this question adds new value (e.g. the <pre><code></code></pre>+< comparison ...
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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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How to add code in the editor [duplicate]
I want to know how to add code tags in this editor. As an example if I want to post an answer in PHP, as soon as I type "open php" my line disappears. How to post PHP with open and close?
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Cannot manually insert four spaces in front of long lines (like URLs)
I ran into a strange issue when posting this answer. I cannot manually insert four spaces (to format as code) in front of the following line in the editor:
https://data.stackexchange.com/beer,%20wine%...
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Ctrl+K doesn't work for indented lines
Below code is indented with 2 .
<- no-break space
<- no-break space
I wrote this code block manually, i.e. prepend 4 spaces to each line.
Why don't I use Ctrl+K? Because it didn'...
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Please add a full-frame text editor to StackOverflow [duplicate]
edit #2: here's what the editor looks like in SBS mode when using SOX
Done and done. Thanks @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
edit: My point here is that when editing code there is a lot of unused screen real-estate. I don't ...
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Unable to copy unprintable unicode characters into the code editor
I recently asked a question about how an obfuscated program that relied on non-printable unicode characters worked.
One of the problems I had here is that when I tried copying the code into my ...
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Detection/fix for the hanging close bracket of a code block
I cannot recall how many times I have edited questions like this (look at the bottom part in red)..
Down there at the bottom is a } that should obviously have been included in the code block.
I wish ...
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Closing the Stack Snippet editor doesn't refocus the textarea
To reproduce:
Click Ask Question and focus the question body textarea
Press Ctrl + M
Hit the X and confirm that you do not want to "abandon any changes."
Immediately press Ctrl + M again.
No snippet ...