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Community consensus regarding using backticks or 4 spaces for code
There might be similar posts regarding this in the past. So, please forgive me.
I often find it hard to edit a post which has lengthy code (indented using 4 spaces). Also, there are higher chances of ...
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Preformatted text horizontal scrolling - bug or feature?
AskUbuntu help recommend to style pre-formatted text and console output with
#four spaces
But sometimes it results in scrolling text. See this question as an example. The problematic line (as ...
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Presentation of code should include explanation in a separate comment section
This is just an idea and I would like to see what the feedback is.
The problem
Starting Linux I've found myself many times looking through example code on this site and finding out what it actually ...
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What to do with <!-- language: bash --> edits?
Recently in the edit queue, there have been edits that only add <!-- language: bash --> to the post. These edits are made by the same user. And often 5-10 at a time.
Is the color highlighting of ...
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Code Block Limit of 30000 characters
I came across a question where user had copied the output of a certain command and made a *.docx file out of it. The file was uploaded and the link was provided in the question to this file.
I copied ...
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Please use code fomatting for code, not quotes [duplicate]
This is some thing I see all the time recently and not just from new users.
Users are using > to format there code and that is just wrong.
Code should be formatted in one of these three ways
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How can I quickly and easily format my code for SE sites' posts?
I usually indent code with tabs, and every time I want to test a snippet before posting it to a SE site I have to reformat it manually before I can post it. Even when I don't use tabs, I need to ...
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