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Text Bar with MarkDown disabled, add Icon to add a code block or Scroll frame (left/right -- up/down)

If you enable Markdown you can add ~ above/below text to insert a Codeback that just scrolls left/right, this is nice to seperate items in discussion


Text Bar with MarkDown disabled which is nicer for the less advanced User, add Icon to add a code block or Scroll frame (left/right -- up/down for larger amounts of text


Now understand if a lot of text, attach file but inerting text in a Scroll frame would be really nice...

  • Jerry Sowders
  • May 20 2021
  • Future consideration
  • Chris commented
    May 20, 2022 20:45

    I'm not sure EXACTLY what this suggestion is suggesting - but I'll start by assuming Codeback is meant to be Codeblock

    I THINK he's saying that he'd like to be able to add a tilde ~ on a line by itself to turn Markdown on "inline" so to speak - without having to go to all that trouble of remembering that you can turn Markdown on/off with <Cmd><Opt>Mor<ALt><Shift>Mwhich I admit I had to just look up, so I get the idea, and support it - BUT not like that.

    IF there is to be a special character sequence to turn on/off MarkDown for a specific purpose - i.e. code block - why choose tilde ~?

    I would suggest a far better way of implementing this would be to use the existing code block markers - i.e.

    ```

    on a single line to turn on/off the code block - and with support for the languages too - so

    ```html

    would turn on a code block formatted for html.


    Now there seems to be also a second suggestion here too which I don't fully understand.

    add Icon to add a code block or Scroll frame (left/right -- up/down for larger amounts of text

    Firstly, if you have a code block, scroll left/right works anyway. Maybe it didn't when @Gerald wrote this.

    But the idea of up/down (vertical) scroll bars for code blocks has merit - but raises the question of "How many lines of code do I need before adding vertical scroll bars?"


    This really should have been a completely different suggestion - why confuse issue A with issue B?


    In the end, I'm supporting the "inline code block" suggestion, because it really ought to just work like that anyway.


    And for the vertical scroll bars - I'd really like a NEW suggestion for that - and if someone writes one, I'll support it.