We use discourse to run a user support forum about programming and related technical activities. New (or less technically savvy) users are not immediately familiar with this forum environment and naively paste code snippets (e.g. Python code) in a text box without appropriate code fences (e.g. tripl…

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Great, looks exactly like what I was hoping for thanks for the quick answer!

Suggest users to use code block when pasting code snippet

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Suggest users to use code block when pasting code snippet

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