Suggestion Position of the inline code formatting icon on the toolbar in the reply box

[Wrichik Basu]

I tend to use inline code formatting ([ICODE]...[/ICODE]) quite a lot. Unfortunately, the icon is placed inside a drop-down menu after the code-block icon on the toolbar above the reply box. Can this be placed on the surface instead by replacing any other icon? For example, I haven't seen many posts that use text colour, so that can be replaced by the inline code icon.

A poll can be opened to find out whether all members are comfortable with this change.

 

[berkeman]

What do the ICODE tags do? I've never used them. Can you give an example? Thanks.

 

[Ibix]

Icode tags put code fragments inline in a paragraph.

 

[berkeman]

But how do you specify which language the Icode encoding should be for? IMO, that's one of the features of code tags.

Testing: What is the difference between starting a frame in Tcl . configure -width 600 -height 600 and in Python/Tk mainframe = ttk.Frame(root, padding="3 3 12 12") ?

. configure -width 600 -height 600

mainframe = ttk.Frame(root, padding="3 3 12 12")

Interesting ... Tcl is not a standard code tag language selection...

 

[Wrichik Basu]

But how do you specify which language the Icode encoding should be for?

You don't need to specify a language. ICODE tags are generally used for small words or expressions; for full statements, it is better to use CODE tags.

Consider the following snippet:

In Android, an Intent is used to pass messages. They may be used to start an activity, service or send a broadcast using the startActivity(), startService() or sendBroadcast() methods. Note that if you intend to use any of the above methods from a Fragment, you have to call them using requireContext(), as a Fragment does not have its own Context:
[CODE lang="java" title="Android"]requireContext().startActivity(intent);[/CODE]

Now consider writing the above with CODE tags everywhere instead of ICODE tags:

In Android, an [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]Intent[/CODE] is used to pass messages. They may be used to start an activity, service or send a broadcast using the [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]startActivity()[/CODE], [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]startService()[/CODE] or [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]sendBroadcast()[/CODE] methods. Note that if you intend to use any of the above methods from a [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]Fragment[/CODE], you have to call them using [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]requireContext()[/CODE], as a [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]Fragment[/CODE] does not have its own [CODE lang="java" title="Android"]Context[/CODE]:
[CODE lang="java" title="Android"]requireContext().startActivity(intent);[/CODE]

You can see that the second snippet doesn't look good. ICODE tags simply change the font of the text to monospace, and thus highlight code keywords in a paragraph.