Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 5 Jun 2021, Terry Reedy wrote: Last time I tried *before*, it did not work. paste, reselect (a nuisance) and click does. Terry, I had tried that and it didn't work any better. Bounding the code with two sets of three backticks does work. Regards, Rich -- https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 6 Jun 2021, joseph pareti wrote: you need to put the code between 2 lines defined as follows: ``` then it will be formatted for you Thanks, Joseph. I figured that out on the web page. Regards, Rich -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-06 Thread joseph pareti
you need to put the code between 2 lines defined as follows: ``` then it will be formatted for you Am Sa., 5. Juni 2021 um 23:40 Uhr schrieb Rich Shepard < rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>: > I tried to post a question on stackoverflow.com which included a bunch of > code (entered after clicking the box

Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-06 Thread dn via Python-list
On 06/06/2021 13.56, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/5/2021 5:36 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> I tried to post a question on stackoverflow.com which included a bunch of >> code (entered after clicking the box 'code'). I noticed that lines were >> wrapped but could not find how to expand the input box so the

Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/5/2021 5:36 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I tried to post a question on stackoverflow.com which included a bunch of code (entered after clicking the box 'code'). I noticed that lines were wrapped but could not find how to expand the input box so they would not wrap. SO wouldn't let me post the qu

Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 6 Jun 2021, Roel Schroeven wrote: There are several ways to format code on StackOverflow, see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251361/how-do-i-format-my-code-blocks Roel, Thanks very much for the URL. What I do most of the time is indent the code by 4 spaces and make sure th

Re: Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-05 Thread Roel Schroeven
Rich Shepard schreef op 5/06/2021 om 23:36: I tried to post a question on stackoverflow.com which included a bunch of code (entered after clicking the box 'code'). I noticed that lines were wrapped but could not find how to expand the input box so they would not wrap. SO wouldn't let me post the

Posting code on stackoverflow

2021-06-05 Thread Rich Shepard
I tried to post a question on stackoverflow.com which included a bunch of code (entered after clicking the box 'code'). I noticed that lines were wrapped but could not find how to expand the input box so they would not wrap. SO wouldn't let me post the question because of the wrapped code. As I'v