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I freaking hate autoformatting and usually prefer the plain old ASCII pseudoformatting. Usually the autogenerated lists are a pain to use with paragraph as the autoformatters tend to understand the "carriage return" as "hoo-ray! on to the next element of the list!" which then prompts to sequences of "Delete, Delete, Delete, Swearing, Rewrite, Enter, Swearing, Control-Enter, Swearing because the broswer interpretes it...".
And when I write *this* I really want to write "*this*" bacause if I wanted to write this I'd simply exert a bit more my fat fingers to either click on the relevant button or to write the 7 characters of the relevant tags.
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I do not think we need that.
If implemented (because this is no democracy, after all), then please with 0-based index.
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My problem with *italic* is when it affects code: *myPointer*2 for example.
If it can be disabled, then I'm fine with it - but I do admit I have no problem finding italic or bold on the toolbar.
Lists would be a nice touch - it's a bit of a pain to insert the <ul>, <ol>, and <li> tags (if only because I can never remember which I need and have to Google). But will you detect "related" text:
- Item 1
Next line - Item 2
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But you always put code inside <pre> tags, don't you?
He can make it so that it doesn't auto-format code.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That didn't work with markdown in QA ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Make it a user profile option, and default it to "off".
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Perhaps just a few more HTML elements? Even for your lists, you could pop out the opening/closing elements and the user can fill in the blank (or like a link, highlight the text and select the HTML markup). The additional items could be in a drop-down
You may notice I'm not a fan of wiki markup.
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Typing isn't actually that hard, and all the words that anyone might need are available in plain text, so is it really worth the effort it would take to implement and maintain?
A bullets button might be handy, but numbered lists are by nature buggy (especially if someone wants more than one such list), so they could be more trouble than they're worth.
Less (time spent working on formatting) is more (time spent working on content)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Typing isn't actually that hard
Be careful - you're establishing a precedent that will cause new programmers to be forced to give up their copy/paste coding technique.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well, they're behind the times, anyway.
Nowadays, it's "link a framework".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No, not big on auto-anything, I know what I'm doing.
And besides, it would be _italics_ .
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[Sigh of relief!]
I thought you were going to erase all comments from the site and start again! 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Is the backlog empty? 
Lists and tables would be nice to have, italics and bold I don't care about.
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Don't see why you feel a need to compete with SO.
#SupportHeForShe
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOzDon't see why you feel a need to compete with SO.
What's this got to do with SO? Oh wait, my bad, they are both websites and use HTML.
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SO uses similar formatting pre/suffixes to those proposed.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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SO did not invent Markdown. Markdown was invented even before SO was created. It's used by reddit and github, and presumably countless other sites.
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I know.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ok I know you have a MS centric site but this is going too far. Auto formatting, auto complete, clippy. Next you will be implementing grammar rules and the grammar nazi's will then spend endless hours criticizing your decisions.
Are we too lazy to format our posts, yes in many cases, do we really care about the formatting, no in many cases.
And you are going to piss of those who really do care and don't agree with your format.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Wow.
OK, not the type of reaction I was expecting.
Duly noted.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah at some point trying to do that little bit extra for your users can be counter productive. I'm just pleased that I'm not the only one that disapproved.
If you are looking for something to do think about a Bob chat robot that does the searches for QA users. Search dressed up in a chat program, it might move some idjits to use it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: If you are looking for something to do
No - I have a ton on my TODO list (though I like the chatbot idea).
I was merely looking to make formatting italic and bold a little easier in a trivial. What surprised me (and I'm surprised I'm still surprised) was the vehemency of the response
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: was the vehemency of the response
Word, Excel, OUTLOOK FFS, and of course lets not forget the ribbn! And that is just MS.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: nazi's
Watch out! The Apostrophe Fascists are coming for you. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Chris Maunder wrote: Markdown without the surprises
You can achieve that only with a WYSIWIG editor.
Personally I hate smartphone autocompletion. It generally leads to more corrections than it saves in typing, and it's totally unfriendly to abbreviations, technical expressions, and other stuff I try to type. Plus it requires additional messages to fix messed up completions' that I missed.
Not saying your suggestion would be as bad as that, but I'm fine with the current editor and toolbar.
There's only one autocompletion tool that I actually like, and that's the one from VisualAssist: it offers the autocompletion options in a tooltip-like window, and you have to actively accept any of these completions (even if there's only one suggestion) using the [TAB] key. Otherwise it will close the moment you type the next key (and probably reopen with new suggestions). this means you can simply type and ignore the autocompletion-suggestions, or actively select specific completions.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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