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Where is the documentation for "@ references in Stack Exchange?"
When the help center doesn't have the information you seek, check the main Stack Exchange meta site, starting with questions tagged FAQ. There is an FAQ on comment @replies.
The main rules are:
@-r …
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Edit Tag Info missing sometimes
Any logged-in user can propose changes to tag descriptions (tag wikis and tag wiki excerpts). Except for users with more than 20k rep, the proposal (suggested edit) needs to be reviewed before it goes …
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Is the review counter a little buggy?
It's not working! Should I blame caching?
But actually, it's more than caching. The number at the top of the screen is the total number of pending items in the queues that you can act on. This includ …
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Light blue background on a question in a question list
Questions that have a tag that you marked as favorite (a.k.a. interesting, different parts of the interface use different names) are shown with a colored background (light blue on this site) in questi …
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Escape < in kbd
These are literal characters that one would type on the computer (e.g. read in the interactive help or typed in the kbd function), so use inline code markup.
`S-<LEFT>`
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Inappropriate text to show user about a too-short question?
This is a notice that moderators can leave. It isn't about the shortness of the question, it's about the shortness of answers. It is not specifically shown to the question asker, and the asker is not …
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How do I gain the attention of moderators when I have updated a question which was closed?
“On hold” and “closed” are the same thing. The annotation on a closed question changes from [on hold] to [closed] after 5 days. I've never understood the rationale behind this name change.
If a quest …
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Off-topic -> migration dialog only offers emacs-meta as an alternative
The migration dialog offers meta on all Stack Exchange sites. That's because some users aren't aware that meta exists and post meta questions on the only site they know, which is the main site.
Other …
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Circumvent "This post seems a duplicate"
Your question How to type S-<LEFT> is not actually how to type S-left but how to use the transient mode for indent-rigidly. If you'd included more information in your title, and if you'd copied the te …
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How to format code blocks
To include some text in a monospaced font with no formatting, put ``` on a line on its own, then the text, then a ``` line again. You may be familiar with this syntax from Github and other Markdown en …
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How to format code blocks
How can I post a block of Emacs Lisp code?
How can I post some buffer content including special characters and not have them interpreted as markup?
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Adding `language: lang-el` to code blocks is not adding syntax highlighting for elisp
Syntax highlighting is activated on a site-by-site basis.
Should we have syntax highlighting for Emacs Lisp by default? I don't expect the presence of Emacs Lisp to be correlated with tags: any quest …