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Is using `code` styling for non-code samples okay?

There are two more places where I would use code formatting: Output from a computer program. In this answer, for example, I would have recommended using code formatting for the output of dpkg-query …
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How to edit to look like code?

One incredibly annoying behaviour of the editor shortcut is that it doesn't account for levels. If you try to embed code within a list, you'll need to add the indentation once more (and more times per …
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Unable to edit a question

Your edit probably conflicted with bolzano's edit which seems to have taken place while you were editing, or was submitted for approval before it. …
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What should be do with smaller edits?

Ever since the too-minor reject reason was removed, it seems the official stand is it's okay, no matter how minor. Personally: If I know the capitalization and/or other pedantry edits are correct/in …
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What is the consensus about hijacking the accepted answer?

tomodachi, who posted answer 1, had edited answer 2, so it is clear tomodachi was aware of the other answer. And since they didn't include that part in their answer: reject as "clearly conflicts with …
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Can I view and cancel my pending edits?

You can view them in your profile: https://askubuntu.com/users/current?tab=activity&sort=suggestions (which should redirect to https://askubuntu.com/users/1082980/sleipnir?tab=activity&sort=suggestion …
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Edit conflicted with a subsequent edit

If you go /posts/<id>/edit (e.g., https://meta.askubuntu.com/posts/19090/edit for this question), while an editing is pending, (a) the editing window will show the version from the pending edit and (b) …
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Need to edit the content of a constantly changing canonical question

The delete votes are irrelevant at this stage. Unless all questions that were closed as duplicates of this are deleted or reopened (and if any of them are themselves dupe targets, then apply this recu …
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Please don't flag link-only answers as Very Low Quality

Very Low Quality is only to be used for posts which are incoherent and not salvageable by editing. I know you are only quoting SE here, but this is BS of the highest order. …
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Make blockquote formatting button not destroy the source layout!

The problem only happens with short lines (or rather, with lines containing short enough words), where the editor wraps a paragraph, leading it to fit as many words as it can into each line. aaaaaaaa …
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