Forum posting question ... how post a thread question with color syntax highlighting ??

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 9/6/21 10:13 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 13:23:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 
>>
>> I will note though, that some people use the mechanism for links that 
>> puts the link at the bottom of the post, and this can be annoying when 
>> you reply, if you don't include the link definition, it doesn't render 
>> correctly.
>>
> 
> Now that's interesting. I had assumed it would be less annoying than 
> having them inline. Especially since people had already adopted a 
> similar convention before we got Markdown support. I gave up on 
> Thuderbird and went full-on with the web interface a couple of years 
> ago, so I've had no view of the experience post-Markdown.
> 
> 

Yeah the convention isn't terrible, but it looks weirder for sure when 
the link is missing.

E.g. look at this post: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/miahenxocgxpvasqgptx@forum.dlang.org

and then a reply: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/jreujgbixqadnwjsifwj@forum.dlang.org

-Steve