TW5: 5.1.11 How to do code block in markdown?

[Chuck R.]

I'm using Firefox v49.0.2 on Windows 7.

I'm familiar with Markdown but I'm having some trouble making a block of code. First, when the Tiddler is a markdown tiddler, when I select several lines of text, I can't hit TAB to indent the text because the tab key takes the cursor out of the Tiddler main text area. I also tried delimiting my code block with three backticks like this:

```
this is code
more code
```

And that didn't work quite right either.

So how do I insert 4 spaces before all the lines that I select?

I'm using the Markdown support native to TW, not the Markdown add-on thing.

Thank you.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Chuck

The easiest way to insert tab characters is to install the CodeMirror plugin, which allows you to type them as usual. Alternatively, as a quick and dirty solution, you can copy a tab character from somewhere else and then paste it in.

Best wishes

Jeremy

On 11 Nov 2016, at 14:50, Chuck R. <wedding...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm familiar with Markdown but I'm having some trouble making a block of code. First, when the Tiddler is a markdown tiddler, when I select several lines of text, I can't hit TAB to indent the text because the tab key takes the cursor out of the Tiddler main text area. I also tried delimiting my code block with three backticks like this:

```
this is code
more code
```

And that didn't work quite right either.

So how do I insert 4 spaces before all the lines that I select?

Thank you.

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[Chuck R.]

Ok. In the future, if the Tiddler is in markdown, can we have an option to treat the tab key as inserting 4 spaces? That would really help. Or just have markdown code blocks delineated by 3 or 4 backticks.

Thanks!