When commenting on mermaid images or LaTeX equations, it’s very helpful to be able to look at the raw markup of the previous message, but as far as I can tell, getting to the raw markup requires manually updating the url which is annoying. Just quoting the existing message often doesn’t work, for example LaTeX gets mangled where $x+y$ seems to become x+yx+yx+y. Is there some relatively easy way I could arrange to add a link on my (self-hosted) site somehow, maybe near the like button or something?

Would this theme component help? [image] Raw Post Button Theme component discourse2 Summary Raw Post Button will add a button to the post menu. When you click the button, you’ll get a modal / popover with the raw (markdown) version of the post. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/raw-post-button open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features [post menu button] [raw modal] Settings …

[image] JammyDodger: Would this theme component help? Exactly what I wanted! Thanks!

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JammyDodger February 2, 2024, 9:32am 2

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