That is extremely simple (just put code tags around and s=</?pre>=</code><code>=g, to restate it more tersely). I find the POD-like approach slightly more complex (see my earlier reply). However, I think your solution will almost never format the post as desired. I hope my POD-like solution will often format posts "correctly".

Further, my solution makes it extremely simple to get a post formatted "correctly". Just separate code with blank lines and indent code. If we keep the idea that simple, then we should be able to get a lot of people to be able to swap in the requirements when posting.

As for code in the middle of text, the main problem is square brackets. And I have a lot of ideas for making that mostly DWIM so I'm not concerned with that here (the square bracket problem needs to be fixed for chatter as well, which makes it almost orthogonal to this formatting problem).

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Adding Minimal Formatting To Unformatted Newbie Posts (code) by tye
in thread Adding Minimal Formatting To Unformatted Newbie Posts by Limbic~Region

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