18
votes
The CommonMark diary
Reading some feedback on meta.stackexchange.com I got the impression that this community feels quite tense about the upcoming CommonMark migration. I feel that some extra levels of transparency shared ...
- 101
14
votes
The CommonMark diary
For users who are curious about how the automated edits look like, and who want to review them for potential issues: visit the profile of the Community user (ID -1), and navigate to 'all actions' &...
- 879
10
votes
How to properly edit code blocks when going from “4 spaces” to “3 backticks”?
Both four space indent and surrounding with ``` are supported markup for a code block.
If an existing post uses one there is no reason to change to the other.
If an existing post hasn't marked up the ...
- 731k
8
votes
Extracting code, uploading code and typeset result
Adding a "copy code" button
To make copying code blocks easier I use an addon for my browser which adds a little "copy code to clipboard" button at the top left:
There are several ...
7
votes
Extracting code, uploading code and typeset result
How to use a MWE from a question
Simply select the code using your mouse and copy/paste it into your TeX editor to work on.
How to put code into your answer
Select the code from your TeX editor, ...
- 214k
7
votes
Accepted
A search of a code string within my posts doesn't work
You'll have to route your query through SEDE. I think the reason here is the difference between the stored content of the post (what you actually typed) and the baked content (what is visualized ...
WernerMod
- 595k
7
votes
Enable Ctrl+K shortcut in comments for inline code
This is something that has been (feature) requested back in 2011 on Meta.SE: Formatting Keyboard Shortcuts for Comments and is truly something that will have to be implemented network-wide.
The only ...
WernerMod
- 595k
5
votes
Accepted
Something messed with my answers backslashes and newlines
The linked question has now been fixed (along with ~11,000 similarly corrupted postings)
see
Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue
For a summary of how this got fixed in the end.
- 731k
5
votes
Accepted
Problem writing the sequence \@ in inline <code>...</code>-blocks
The markdown backtick syntax does not only the formatting like the HTML <code> block, but it also escapes special characters, so a \ or a < or > have no special meaning. Inside a <code&...
- 70.5k
5
votes
Easy way to copy code block?
I have created another Greasemonkey (Firefox) / Tampermonkey (Chrome) script that use clipboard.js.
When you hover a code section (<pre><code>) there is a small </> sign that appears ...
- 22.8k
4
votes
Add button "Select All"
For firefox there are nice add-ons to add this missing feature
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/codecopy/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-code/
With these add-ons ...
3
votes
Add button "Select All"
The Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) script provides this functionality through a very minimal icon in the top-right corner of a code display:
I have the script activated via Tampermonkey in Chrome, but ...
WernerMod
- 595k
3
votes
Accepted
‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’
The linked question has now been fixed as part of a general fix of several thousand similarly affected posts, see
https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7326
- 731k
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible