[wp-forums] Pasting Code

[Les Bessant]

Errrr?

The instructions (which work) are to use the backticks, with no mention of
<code> tags. 

I'm an IT Pro of more years experience than I care to think of, but before I
joined the WP Forum, I had never heard of that obscure character being (i)
used or (ii) called a "backtick". The functionality is poor for everyone.
Line breaks? Better not include them, as that causes breakage.

It would be much easier if the forum could interpret something akin to
BBCode (which is widely understood by lots of people, including newcomers)
so that code wrapped in something like [code] would be rendered as text and
not parsed.

This ties in with the earlier discussion of changing the forums to make them
more usable. Some of the changes we need are simple matters of page layout.
Others, like this suggest that some coding work needs to be done. 

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Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
Losing it[1] - http://lcb.me.uk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Michael B
> Sent: 09 September 2006 03:06
> To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Pasting Code
> 
> It's not just appearance that's an issue.  The functionality 
> for new users
> is also a problem.  A lot of users do not understand how to post
> <code>`<some php code>`</code>, and even then, sometimes the code gets
> garbled.  I agree that it might not be a best case solution,  
> but in the
> name of initiative, I've created the subdomain, if it's not 
> adopted, or shot
> down in a general consensus, so be it.  But wordpress.pastebin.ca now
> exists.
> 
> As I mentioned in another thread, it was discussed once before about
> wp.orghaving it's own, but that never materialized.  At some point,
> initiative and
> action has to be taken, IMO, otherwise it all becomes talk and best
> intentions.
> 
> ~miklb
> 
> On