Posting code on stackoverflow

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jun 5 21:56:54 EDT 2021


On 6/5/2021 5:36 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I tried to post a question on stackoverflow.com which included a bunch of
> code (entered after clicking the box 'code'). I noticed that lines were
> wrapped but could not find how to expand the input box so they would not
> wrap.
> 
> SO wouldn't let me post the question because of the wrapped code. As I've
> not asked a question ther for a long time, and it didn't involve long lines
> of code, I need to learn a) how to enter code if it's not just clicking on
> the 'code' box before pasting text

Last time I tried *before*, it did not work.  paste, reselect (a 
nuisance) and click does.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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