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Comment by nrhrjrjrjtntbt

5 hours ago

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Is widely supported to add code. E.g. in Slack, Confluence...

Both examples you gave have pretty rough or nonexistent syntax highlighting support.

It's not widely supported. It's not in e-mail or SMS or Gmail or Docs or Word or a hundred other pieces of software where I communicate.

Yes, I use that wherever it exists. It's great, and you're lucky when it's there. I wish it was everywhere. But as long as it's not, for everything else, there's screenshots.

Slack seems to always wrap code blocks. It makes python particularly shit to read.

  • In my experience copying from some programs preserves long lines. Copying from other programs breaks them at the wrap point. Once the text is cut into lines, pasting can't fix it. I'm not at my computer now so I can't give factual examples. I guess that copying from the output of cat file on a terminal is one of those unfortunate cases.