I have attempted to edit this post, however the edit was rejected.
After asking on the Ask Ubuntu general chat room, one of the kind users said that it is considered a destructive edit to move command line edits to a pastebin, unless it is your own post.
Why is this?
In general, we prefer posts that are as self-contained as possible. If the output was too long to fit in a post, moving to pastebins can be justified, but for that post, it's not very long. Even with a four-space indentation to create a code block, it didn't reach the post-length limit.
We encourage edits which go the other way though (moving stuff that's in pastebins when they could clearly fit in the post).
I see two problems here: 1, dumped data can clutter up a post, making it harder to read quickly, and 2, the community needs to own its own data.
I see a medium-effort solution: Add a collapse / expand button to code blocks. In a no-js environment, do not auto-hide any blocks. If a single line of JS in the head can remove a no-js attribute from the html tag, then auto-collapse blocks according to user preference and block line count.
If user preferences are to be implemented for code block rendering, that would be an excellent opportunity to introduce the greatly missed line wrap feature.
