in reply to Re^7: Special place for RTFM posts
in thread Special place for RTFM posts

... enclosing any text entered into the "Code that shows the problem" field within <code> tags.

That's basically what we had in the recently shuttered Code Catacombs section. The reasons we had for closing that section equally apply here as a reason for not making the suggested change.

What is the sound of Windows? Is it not the sound of a wall upon which people have smashed their heads... all the way through?

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Re^9: Special place for RTFM posts
by Argel (Prior) on Dec 23, 2009 at 20:43 UTC
    I think you are overlooking that many long time users would probably take advantage of it for any post fitting the "question followed by code" format. But I doubt it's worth the effort to implement.

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