13
votes
Accepted
Incorrectly rendered code blocks look fine in edit view
Code blocks delimited with ``` ("fences") were implemented just this January (see this meta post). Before that, three backticks was equivalent to one backtick, resulting in inline code formatting, as ...
- 128k
13
votes
4-space indentation never works
Did you leave an empty line before the code? For example:
Test line
line 1 indented by four spaces
line 2 indented by four spaces
Test line 2
line 3 indented by four spaces
line 4 ...
- 4,556
7
votes
4-space indentation never works
There's another syntax for code blocks which is mentioned in the advanced formatting help. Surround the code by three backticks on a line of their own. The backticks have to be on their own line but ...
6
votes
Accepted
I got no Inbox notification for a comment, why?
The first comment replied to you by name using @MarcusLinsner -- that's not just a convention, the site recognizes it and knows that the reply is for you:
If a reply doesn't contain a specific @name ...
- 90.1k
5
votes
Accepted
meta.unix.stackexchange.com link change leads to specific question on non-meta site?
It's the answer that has the matching ID number. You get redirected to ...questions/2842/debian-server-on-a-intel-core-i3-and-intel-q57-chipset-will-it-work/3895#3895, the canonical URL for answer ...
- 73.4k
4
votes
Incorrectly rendered code blocks look fine in edit view
I don't know what happened to that formatting. I tested the exact same markup in the sandbox and it rendered ok. I then added a single newline to the answer text and saved it, which seems to have ...
KusalanandaMod
- 311k
4
votes
Accepted
Close vote queue limit VS vote close from question
No, it is intended behavior. It is a way of stopping "robo reviewers", people who go through the queues and just click blindly in order to get a badge (yes, this actually exists).
You can still close ...
terdonMod
- 228k
4
votes
Accepted
Bug of answering questions
It doesn't say you asked it. I assume you are referring to the fact that your username appears on the front page (http://unix.stackexchange.com) associated with the question. If you look closely, ...
terdonMod
- 228k
3
votes
4-space indentation never works
Let me have a go
code
yes it works! I left a blank line before it.
So the 'How to Format' should have told us about this!
- 27
2
votes
Activity in achievements feed time-stamped as “yesterday” when I posted the question 1.5 hrs ago PST
A "day" on Stack Exchange starts at 00:00 UTC time.
I believe "Achievements" are shown in absolute UTC days to keep them consistent to the way time spans for caps (to daily reputation, votes...), ...
- 9,651
2
votes
Incorrectly rendered code blocks look fine in edit view
As already noted, this is because the post was made before triple-backtick code blocks were supported, and hasn't been edited since support was added. A post's rendering is cached until the post is ...
1
vote
4-space indentation never works
The behavior you are seeing is a design feature: in Markdown you need a blank line to signal the and of a paragraph. Spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line are not enough to make it a different ...
- 9,651
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible