How to post code on the forum - For absolute beginners

[Mykle1]

@s199 said in How to post code on the forum - For absolute beginners:

i love your “absolute beginners” guides, keep them coming!

thanks a lot !

Hey, thanks for that. I do appreciate it. When I think of another one, I’ll get right to it.

Peace!

[Mykle1]

@s199

You might be interested in this. It’s not titled For absolute beginners, but it’s close enough.

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7

[roxx]

lets see if this works
I have this back tick on my Android and not in my windows tablet.. so i will need to post code from this mobile!!!

[swvalenti]

Awesome

Thank you!

[evroom]

Still having trouble with < and >, actually < x m l _ l I n e > (without spaces).

<xml_line>

Or:

</xml_line>

I did:

< x m l _ l I n e >

and

< / x m l _ l I n e >

Remove the spaces to get my result.
I was given a workaround for this, but of course forgot it.

[sdetweil]

@evroom the workaround is to add a space after <

[evroom]

@sdetweil
Can’t be it. He said hopefully.
So when I have numerous lines of xml, I need to add a space after every < ?

And when doing so I actually get:
< xml_line>

[sdetweil]

@evroom yes… the space will show, uuuuuuuugly…

you would think that the three backquotes would turn off text interpretation…
but sadly not…

[Mykle1]

I’m posting to this topic in the hope that it will be read by users that are not aware of the protocol for posting.

Your code posts should look like this:

{
            disabled: false,
            module: "MMM-EARTH",
            position: "bottom right",
            config: {
                mode: "Natural",
                rotateInterval: 15000,
                animationSpeed: 0,
                MaxWidth: "45%",
                MaxHeight: "45%",
            }
        },

NOT like this:

{
disabled: false,
module: “MMM-EARTH”,
position: “bottom right”,
config: {
mode: “Natural”,
rotateInterval: 15000,
animationSpeed: 0,
MaxWidth: “45%”,
MaxHeight: “45%”,
}
},

Peace!

[JediJah]

Thanks for this post. I am about to put it to good use.

[sdetweil]

@Mykle1 how did you do that? (the two steps!)

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil said in How to post code on the forum - For absolute beginners:

@Mykle1 how did you do that? (the two steps!)

?

I’m lost.

[sdetweil]

@Mykle1 you said

Your code posts should look like this:

so, how do they do that?

1. mark the text of the ‘code’
2. hit the button above the editor that looks like </>

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil

Hit the button above the editor first.

That gives you the two sets of backticks, In between them, already highlighted, are the words, “Post code here”.

and you get this

[sdetweil]

@Mykle1 i like to write the text, add the code in between the words, then mark the code sections…

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil

I never use the button. Learned backticks early on. Was so happy about it that I wrote the tutorial Jun 28, 2017, 7:40 PM