HTML code is being misinterpreted as markdown.
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Continuing the discussion from Bonecrusher Loves His Cat Food:
And because the editor replaces emoticons with a small icon, it might be very helpful to see the preview of what you are posting... since the auto substitution of emoticons means you can't write (<b>) any more but to have to insert a something between the ; and the ).
Basically, you can't write (<b>) (or similar) without smileys cropping up:
Actual: (<b>)
Expected:(<b>) (And the source to actually get that on screen is painful)
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\)
? Ewww…
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Expected:(<b>)
Related: Quoting such stuff doesn't include the necessary escaping to reproduce the quote....
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(<b>)
Code belongs in code blocks (
`
).(Challenge: Type that ^)
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This is a bug:
x;)
x:)
Our smiley super-auto-completer should not be completing a smiley in this case.
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Markdown's text styling codes are just terrible anyway. Asterisks for italics? Italicizing twice as much yields... bold?? And to do monospace it uses the freaking backtick (sorry, grave accent) character? Yeesh.
In the good old days, single asterisks meant bold and slashes meant italics, gorramit. And... oh, I see now... Markdown was created by John "Daring Fireball" Gruber. Ugh, no wonder it's so effed up. Leave it to a Mac guy to reinvent the wheel and screw it up in the process.
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Apparently you have never used GitHub, or Stack Overflow, both of which use Markdown extensively?
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Apparently you have never used GitHub, or Stack Overflow, both of which use Markdown extensively?
"Markdown is terrible!"
"No it's not, we use it on our other site and there's also this big site that uses it!"As much as I'm somewhere between "don't care" and "well, that is kinda stupid" when it comes to Markdown, what you said is not an argument.
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Fixed in master.
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