Hawkee - Mar 21, 2014

I've almost completed site-wide support for markdown. We'll still support bbcode, but it will be deprecated. When a thread, comment or snippet is posted using bbcode it will be converted to markdown automatically. We'll be supporting fenced code blocks like GitHub, so it'll be much easier to add code to comments or threads. You'll just need to surround your code with ``` above and below.

5 Responses

Meta - Mar 22, 2014

So like:

code

or will code work as well?

Hawkee - Mar 22, 2014

That'll produce inline code which is a little different. It won't have line numbers or syntax highlighting.

illhawkthat - Mar 24, 2014

TIL Hawkee supported bbcode...

Hawkee - Mar 24, 2014

I guess I'll need to make it very clear that we support markdown once this is done then.

Hawkee - Mar 24, 2014

I'm adding tabs to the top of the snippet editor: Hybrid (syntax highlighted code and raw markdown), Raw (plain text editor), and Preview (see what it will look like before posting). The default mode will be Hybrid just like it is now, but the new Raw mode will allow you to export your raw markdown to post it elsewhere. This can be used as an editor for creating README.md files for GitHub.