I've spent quite some time on the forum during the last months, mostly answering people, and I would like to share a few thoughts that, from my perspective, would help newcomers as well as contributers.

Hey,

I've spent quite some time on the forum during the last months, mostly answering people, and I would like to share a few thoughts...

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great ideas, … this certainly would help newcomers like me.

Thanks. We'll happily take it into consideration and see what we can do to address some of the needs expressed here.

As a quick aside - the revived editor does support using markdown syntax while you type. Using that you can still create inline code by using 

, from your suggestion I assume you'd additionally like to see a menu button and potential shortcut?

I didn't know markdown was supported! I think I tried once `that syntax` but it didn't work so I just though there was no markdown. Oh ok got it! I don't know if it's specific to french keyboards or just my own, or just me not correctly typing accents since 25 years, but I generally need to type ` twice before the character actually appears (in double), then I would just hit the left arrow to place the cursor in between and type, but the lack of space hitting after the last one just prevents the inline tag from being recognized. Also, it won't work if the first or last letter of the inline code can be accentuated.

For example, I can't inline an ìtable`. Or maybe I need to put an 

). No link but I guess it's ok with the menu button.

Lines too. And exponents^2^ ? Or subscripts ~like that~? Apparently not, but that's fine I guess.

 ? Nice. And ==emphasis== ? Nope, but that's fine, too.

Sorry for the noise, I feel like I just rediscovered how to use markdown here.

Personnaly I'm fine with markdown and don't need extra toolbar buttons or shortcuts, but a small reminder that markdown can be used could be nice!

Hahaha thanks for sharing your discovery tour :)

 as the marker, assuming you really prefer that over a simple key command.

You're correct that not all MD features are currently fully implemented but as part of tweaking some of the things you've mentioned originally we'll be looking at it and potentially enable some more.

It seems that in addition to using ` you can also toggle the inline code using 

 on Windows. But yeah, that's not really obvious and we'll probably end up making some UI tweaks to point that out as well.

To be transparent here - the good news is that since moving to a new editor and search (which hopefully not only for us feels like an improvement) we are far more able to tweak and tackle these things and appreciate the feedback as the heavy weight of dealing with a problematic 3rd party framework and its sheer amount of technical debt isn't in the way anymore.

To be fair, I was quite pleased by the few visible changes on the forum, but quickly got disapointed when I discovered basically what we are discussing right now. It felt like it was it was an ongoing update with more changes to come but nothing seem to have changed in the last few weeks so... that's why I posted here.

When inserting a code or quote block at the very end of a message, it's not possible to then put the cursor bellow it, which makes impossible to write text after that block (unless cutting the block, adding a few new lines, and pasting it in between). It would be convenient to just get an extra new line added after a block when adding one.

there was a sticky about "copy compressed" for years, but it did not change much.

Yes, usually people don't read those, but it's nice to have it in a place easy to find so we can quickly redirect to it when needed.

Maybe a small unobstrusive warning message with short how-to instruction (or a link to 

) when a .maxpat is being uploaded is the way to go

"hey, you idiot, did you just try to upload a .maxpat?"

WRT code and quote blocks at the end of the content - that was an issue with the old editor but AFAIK (and just tested) one can navigate out of the block with either the arrow keys or by repeatedly hitting 

 as the block will be automatically exited to a new paragraph after a certain number of empty lines (~2).

Oooh, my bad again, I tried to insert empty lines but I guess only one, or maybe I experienced an edge case I can't reproduce. Seems like I struggle to change my habits!

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