Add a "fixed-width/monospace font in composer" setting

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A feature request has been made to add a setting for a fixed-width/monospace font in the composer. Andrew15-5 wants the ability to use a monospace font for the entire composer textarea, not just for code blocks, similar to GitHub’s Markdown editor font preference. A workaround currently exists using a third-party browser extension with custom CSS, but a built-in setting would be more ideal. Jagster initially misunderstood the request, thinking it was about code fences, but Firepup650 clarified that the request is for a global monospace font setting for the composer.

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A more general/global version of Activate monospace font inside codeblocks in the post editor. In short, I want to have the same feature as (for example) GitHub has:

Markdown editor font preference

Font preference for plain text editors that support Markdown styling (e.g. pull request and issue descriptions, comments.)

:white_check_mark: Use a fixed-width (monospace) font when editing Markdown

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Which in practice looks like this:

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Having a workaround of having a third-party browser extension with a custom CSS per page/website isn’t ideal.

The setting will nicely go into https://meta.discourse.org/u/<user>/preferences/interface:

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But… when using code fences, the font is always monospace. What I don’t understand now? Should the composer show monospace before ending the code fence? If so… why? Wouldn’t it be easier to put the code fences and then start writing between those?

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I believe they’re asking for a setting for the composer itself to be in a monospace font, not specifically code fences.

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"A more general/global version of Activate monospace font inside codeblocks in the post editor " here means that I don’t want a monospace font just for a code block but for the whole composer textarea, hence the title (“monospace font in composer”).

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