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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #284872 |
On Stack Overflow, tabs in code blocks are automatically converted to 4 spaces. On Codidact, tabs are preserved.
Since Codidact preserves more of the original text, there is a stronger reason here than on SO to avoid pasting in an image instead. In some cases a bug may be due to a tab character, s... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292263 |
If you want a code block to be plain text with no syntax highlighting, you can specify a language string that is not recognised by the syntax highlighter. For example, I specify "text", and this results in no colour or weight being applied.
Without specifying "text":
````text
```
The word... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292263 |
At present the syntax highlighting that has been automatically applied to the code blocks (plain text sections) has somewhat helpful colour and weight applied to sections that are code, but somewhat distracting colour and weight applied to sections that are not code. Removing the syntax highlighting ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292287 |
Thanks for explaining. I would not expect everyone who has a use for git to also have sufficient Unix knowledge to know why a command is postfixed "(1)", so I'd recommend mentioning this in the answer (perhaps in a footnote), rather than just in one of the comment threads.
The notation makes sense... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292287 |
I notice that in several places the notation "git pull(1)" is used, which I do not understand. It makes me think of either a label or a footnote, but I can see no previous introduction of a label, nor a footnote at the end of the answer.
Is there some other meaning to the "(1)"? If so could this m... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291851 |
Post edited: Make new tag more specific |
— | 6 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291851 |
Suggested edit: Make new tag more specific (more) |
helpful | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291850 |
Post edited: Replace the ambiguous word "fashion" |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291850 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should beginner-oriented Q&A here include basic use of a terminal (command line) for developers? Yes, tools used by developers are on topic here From the top of the front page (emphasis mine): > General Q&A about programming, scripting, software design & architecture, process, tools, testing, and more. Responses to the finer details of the question Understanding computers is not necess... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291757 |
Another option is to keep organic, naturally messier questions in the Q&A category, and have a separate category for more formal, documentation style articles.
Some Codidact communities already have a category for articles (which differ from questions in that they do not support answers, only comm... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291047 |
The question author is seeking a way to be notified of answers to their questions. The only current options for subscribing by email are for new questions and interesting questions. There is not yet an option to be emailed when you have a personal notification. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291041 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Email alerts for notifications This feature has not yet been implemented. However, there is a feature request on Codidact Meta that requests it for all communities. You (and anyone else who would like to see this) can add your vote and/or thoughts there. I would definitely use this feature myself if it were implemented. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291040 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291040 |
Post edited: Mention that 2 line breaks are required but 1 still causes a similar problem |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291040 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Issue with the Monospace font What's wrong As Moshi's comment points out, single backticks only work for inline code (code that appears within a paragraph of other text, and contains no line breaks). The following raw text: > ```text > A paragraph with `inline code` showing. > ``` is rendered as: > A paragraph with... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289261 |
No I doubt anyone is going to post an answer if they consider it dangerous, except perhaps on Code Golf... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289831 |
> Certain operators like the && and || in C guarantee a left-to-right evaluation and also that the evaluation stops if it finds that the result cannot be true.
It also stops if it finds that the result cannot be false (pedantic point since the sentence mentions `||`, not just `&&`). (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289698 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Tags are highlighting while my favourite tags is empty The problem mentioned in the question The original problem mentioned in the question is now fixed. If several users share a computer (or one person has several user accounts), the user who is currently signed in will be the one whose preferences are used. Previously, preferences were stored in th... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289694 |
See also [How to best ask about algorithmic problems](https://software.codidact.com/posts/285461).
There the question of whether a programming language should be specified was a sub-question and didn't get much discussion. I'm glad it has now been asked as a separate question to allow more focused... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289695 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: codidact profile editing requires 30 characters but has no error message This has now been indirectly fixed for all Codidact communities by removing the minimum character requirement altogether. See Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters? on Codidact Meta. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289655 |
Post edited: Formatting |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289655 |
Suggested edit: Formatting (more) |
helpful | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289656 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Reaching to a directory in git-bash You can narrow down the problem by using `cd` to navigate to the different nested directories in the path one at a time, starting from the one on the left. The first one that gives you an error tells you that this is the directory causing the problem. In this particular case, you could try the fol... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289261 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: On self-answered questions, is it inappropriate to mark my own answer "Works for me" immediately? Bear in mind that unlike on some other question and answer sites, the "Works for me" reaction is not restricted to the author of the question. Anyone can add that reaction, whether they posted the question or not. You can also add that reaction to more than one answer to the same question. This la... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288768 |
It's just an option since you mentioned wanting everyone to be free to voice their opinions.
I agree it's more likely communities would choose a non-zero value for both, or a zero value for both. Another option would be to have downvotes giving negative rep in Meta but not as much (for example, -2... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288768 |
Just for completeness: the system is already set up to allow changing the rep per upvote independently of the rep per downvote, so gaining rep for Meta upvotes but losing no rep for Meta downvotes is an option. Mentioning in case that affects your concern that people be free to express unpopular opin... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288765 |
Post edited: Typo, format table, remove redundant statement |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288765 |
Suggested edit: Typo, format table, remove redundant statement (more) |
helpful | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288701 |
Post edited: Use "<thead>" and "<th>" instead of manual "<b>" |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288698 |
Might be worth editing to mention the extra options that this example is not using:
- above the dividing line of hyphens, you can include column headers between the vertical bars
- you can add more hyphens in the dividing line to make the vertical bars line up with the vertical bars in the other ro... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288701 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Best practices for posting tabular data For most purposes, the easiest approach is probably Markdown tables, as described in Wicket's answer. If you have requirements that Markdown tables do not support, such as merged cells, you can resort to HTML tables, which can be included directly in the raw text of a post. For example, raw tex... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288668 |
[A more recent answer](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288660/288698#answer-288698) suggests Markdown tables are already supported here. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288060 |
I also like the fact that the question is not complaining about the difference in behaviour between `if` and `for`, but actively seeking understanding and asking about a potential explanation. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288060 |
I don't see the question as asking why Python doesn't have the same syntax as JavaScript. The author understands that the parentheses are not required in Python. The question is why is it OK to add redundant parentheses to an `if` statement, but not to a `for` statement.
Until the reason is unders... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288464 |
I agree questions are useful at all levels.
The answer might seem obvious after it is discovered, but it was not obvious before it was discovered, so it will not be obvious to the next person either. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288321 |
Codidact is already set up to have multiple categories per community, so I think it just needs an admin to add it (if the community indicates support for it). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288321 |
Would the community benefit from a separate category for software recommendations (like the code reviews category)? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288173 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288173 |
Post edited: Clarification |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288173 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288173 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Queries to count points lying on arbitrary line Some answer-specific terminology to make describing things simpler: - I will refer to the N points as candidate points. - I will refer to the integer points inside the [bounding box] of the N points as lattice points. Two approaches There are two ways to approach this question: - Check w... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |