# The 'text' language identifer appears as applescript rather than text

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-text-language-identifer-appears-as-applescript-rather-than-text/14076>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 25, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-text-language-identifer-appears-as-applescript-rather-than-text/14076 "2014-03-25T02:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![thristhart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thristhart/32/108470_2.png) [@thristhart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thristhart)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-text-language-identifer-appears-as-applescript-rather-than-text/14076/5 "2014-03-25T18:38:08Z")

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I initially discovered the issue when I was attempting to pre-format a large block of text that I needed to be indented four spaces _inside_ the code block; that is, effectively indented eight spaces. There was no easy way to do that in-editor (other than copy/pasting eight spaces repeatedly) so I tried to use code fences instead.

```
    the only way to do this is eight spaces

```

```plaintext
    or via code fence and four spaces

```

Four spaces is advantageous over eight because I can use the in-editor Preformatted text button to indent large blocks of text by four spaces, but there’s no way to do that with eight. This is obviously not a common use-case, so it’s not a particularly high priority bug.

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