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Normal code formatting can be done by adding 4 spaces in front, no problem: #define STUFF 123 And that turns out light blue:ish in my browser (Firefox) in some code-friendly, fixed-width font l...
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trichoplax
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2025-06-09T17:12:00Z (3 days ago)
Put screenshot in quote block to distinguish it from the rest of the post
Is code formatting of double underscore + 4 spaces indention a bug?
- Normal code formatting can be done by adding 4 spaces in front, no problem:
- #define STUFF 123
- And that turns out light blue:ish in my browser (Firefox) in some code-friendly, fixed-width font like Courier or whatever.
- I just noticed that code containing double underscore and code formatted by adding 4 spaces ends up like this:
- #define COUNT(...) ( 0 __VA_OPT__(COUNT1(__VA_ARGS__)) )
- Now the color is wine red and part of it is in italics. But otherwise code formatted in a code-friendly font. Huh.
- If we instead do 5 spaces:
- #define COUNT(...) ( 0 __VA_OPT__(COUNT1(__VA_ARGS__)) )
- Then it ends up as expected.
- Is this is a bug or am I missing something about how code formatting/markdown works?
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- **Screen shot of this meta post:**
- (In case the result isn't rendered the same way for everyone or in case the bug gets fixed in the future.)
- Normal code formatting can be done by adding 4 spaces in front, no problem:
- #define STUFF 123
- And that turns out light blue:ish in my browser (Firefox) in some code-friendly, fixed-width font like Courier or whatever.
- I just noticed that code containing double underscore and code formatted by adding 4 spaces ends up like this:
- #define COUNT(...) ( 0 __VA_OPT__(COUNT1(__VA_ARGS__)) )
- Now the color is wine red and part of it is in italics. But otherwise code formatted in a code-friendly font. Huh.
- If we instead do 5 spaces:
- #define COUNT(...) ( 0 __VA_OPT__(COUNT1(__VA_ARGS__)) )
- Then it ends up as expected.
- Is this is a bug or am I missing something about how code formatting/markdown works?
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- **Screen shot of this meta post:**
- (In case the result isn't rendered the same way for everyone or in case the bug gets fixed in the future.)
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#1: Initial revision
by
Lundin
·
2025-06-09T14:55:09Z (3 days ago)
Is code formatting of double underscore + 4 spaces indention a bug?
Normal code formatting can be done by adding 4 spaces in front, no problem:
#define STUFF 123
And that turns out light blue:ish in my browser (Firefox) in some code-friendly, fixed-width font like Courier or whatever.
I just noticed that code containing double underscore and code formatted by adding 4 spaces ends up like this:
#define COUNT(...) ( 0 __VA_OPT__(COUNT1(__VA_ARGS__)) )
Now the color is wine red and part of it is in italics. But otherwise code formatted in a code-friendly font. Huh.
If we instead do 5 spaces:
#define COUNT(...) ( 0 __VA_OPT__(COUNT1(__VA_ARGS__)) )
Then it ends up as expected.
Is this is a bug or am I missing something about how code formatting/markdown works?
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**Screen shot of this meta post:**
(In case the result isn't rendered the same way for everyone or in case the bug gets fixed in the future.)
