Is there a wiki-style "Playground" on this site?

qubit1 · July 25, 2012, 3:38pm

Syntax test (fdo#1234) here (@qubit)

qubit1 · January 25, 2013, 7:49pm

Comment on an old answer

qubit1 · November 13, 2013, 6:34am

new comment with fdo#1234 and blo#2345 in it.

qubit1 · July 30, 2012, 5:10pm

quoting styles

Blockquote

PRE/CODE here
foo@bar:~/$ for i in blah; do echo harumph; done

qubit1 · January 21, 2013, 9:38am

Let’s play with code!

Here is some code within backticks(0).

Does this mark as code?
I = 5; Hope = 0; So = "period"

Yep, that works. Now for syntax highlighting?

a = 5
puts "Superdog " + 5
a.each{|beach, ball|
  some = stuff = here
  puts "is important"
}

Nope, doesn’t seem to have support for syntax highlighting like on GitHub

Note to self: Maybe just file request w/upstream now…

qubit1 · January 21, 2013, 5:17pm

Code commenting styles – what works, what doesn’t work, etc.

    /* Some C-style code */
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void) {
      printf("hello, world\n"); /* End of line comment */
    }

C works pretty well.

Java?

    // Some Java code
    class HelloLibO {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); // End of line comment
      }
    }

Java looks pretty good!

How about Python?

    # A Hello-world function (with some extra stuff thrown in).
    def HelloWorld(s):
        print("Hello world")
        for foo in bar
          if passes(foo)
            print '%s' % foo
          else:
            print "Fails!"

Multi-line comments?

    """ Multi-line comment in Python
    probably isn't going to work right now
    """

No, not working too well.

LibreOffice Basic?

    ' This is a Hello World snippet.
    print "Hello, world!"

Hmm… the formatter hates the unclosed single-quote. Let’s try again using ‘REM’

    REM This is a Hello World snippet.
    print "Hello, world!"

A little better, but the comment is still being highlighted like code, not a comment. Let’s try again, using either a C+±style or Bash-style comment.

    REM // This is a Hello World function.
    REM # Hopefully these comments will render as expected!
    Sub Main
      print "Hello, world!" REM # End of line comment.
    End Sub

Here’s some more LO Basic as a formatting example (from this question):

    Sub Main
      Set thisBook = ThisComponent
      studentsSheet = thisBook.Sheets.getByName("Students")

      i = 0
      Do
        c = studentsSheet.getCellByPosition(0, i)

        REM // Stop creating sheets for students once we find a
        REM // row with no name.
        If c.Type = com.sun.star.table.CellContentType.EMPTY Then
          print "Exiting: Found row with no student name."
          Exit Do
        EndIf

        studentName = c.String
        sNew = thisBook.createInstance("com.sun.star.sheet.Spreadsheet")
        thisBook.Sheets.insertByName(studentName, sNew)
        i = i + 1

      REM // Sanity-check on looping forever. We don't expect 
      REM // to have over 1000 students.
      Loop Until i > 1000
    End Sub

Here’s an upstream post about the code behind the syntax highlighting: http://askbot.org/en/question/3026/syntax-highlighting/

Looks like it’s https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

Also see https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html – looks like it might be possible to pass-along the language name and get a bit better highlighting. We might need to add a new language handler if LO Basic and Visual Basic use a different grammar.

syockit · November 20, 2013, 2:50pm

I don’t know how it is here, but in StackOverflow, you can put in a comment tag to hint at what language should be used by prettify: 

qubit1 · January 25, 2013, 7:46pm

Testing out how long it takes to post a new answer!

Let’s put at least a little content in here…

qubit1 · January 25, 2013, 7:48pm

Comment #1. AAAAnd test!

qubit1 · January 25, 2013, 7:49pm

Another one!

manj_k · February 12, 2013, 12:09pm

blah (2x Shift+Enter)

blah
blah

manj_k · February 12, 2013, 12:14pm

Aaa

Bbb

Ccc

qubit1 · February 12, 2013, 5:09pm

Hey @manj_k, I’m now hanging out in #libreoffice-ask on freenode. It’s not an official channel, but it’ll work if anyone wants to chat

jmadero.dev · January 28, 2013, 2:26am

testing this one out

qubit1 · January 28, 2013, 2:42am

@jmadero.dev – cool, that worked.

manj_k · January 28, 2013, 1:32pm

Like lightning he darted off to the ~~left~~ right and disappeared between the two warehouses almost falling over the trash can lying in the middle of the sidewalk.

~~He tried to nervously tap his way along in the inky darkness and suddenly stiffened: it was a dead-end, he would have to go back the way he had come.~~

test upload.odt

qubit1 · January 28, 2013, 7:56pm

Hey @manj_k, Is there a way to see change-tracking on comments? I poked around, but I didn’t seem to find a link for such a thing…

qubit1 · February 19, 2013, 10:54pm

@manj_k – Oh, and congrats on 4000+ karma

qubit1 · January 29, 2013, 1:32am

Testing linking behavior here:

fdo#1234

#fd1234

What other types of linking would be helpful? Possible sites include

LO wiki
(A)OO bug tracker

It would also be very helpful to be able to have shortcuts for default responses, such as:

[fileabug] → Please file a bug
[download] → Please download the latest build of LibreOffice
[needinfo] → We need more information about your particular question before we can answer you.

oweng · June 2, 2013, 1:21am

The shortcut links would be quite helpful. Hopefully [fileabug] would include the text “file a bug” rather than just “a bug” in the link