Be sure to get user input on which language the preformatted text is

[jidanni (Dan Jacobson)]

With preformatted text, why are some letters red and numbers blue?

The code block is formatted using the default code lang Site Setting. On meta, we have that set to text. You can override that per block by specifying the language after the initial fence.

So the dialog doesn’t ask the user what computer language they are using!

Select the programming language used in code blocks

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OK, so when the user selects Preformatted Text from the tool bar, there needs to be a box for the user to enter the computer language of the text, and also a list of the current valid languages to choose from. Perhaps a radio button dialog.

Currently the dialog just uses a “one size fits all” choice for language. (Which one is picked isn’t shown to the user either.)