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   Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 00:17:25 JST Buttondown

   New editor features
   https://buttondown.email/changelog/2024-05-29

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     Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:17:50 JST Eric Matthes

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     @buttondown Yes yes yes! I'd love to hear more about how you went about implementing this.

     We've heard for so long that code blocks in emails can't be highlighted because email clients are limited. That has seemed unfounded, and I've implemented it for my own newsletter on Ghost.

     How did you decide to make this happen when other platforms say email clients can't support it?

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     Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:19:01 JST Buttondown

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     • Eric Matthes

     @ehmatthes You're probably looking for an answer less blasé than "we tried harder than they did", right? ;)

     (Really, the answer for anything email-related is — inline everything, and test rigorously. It's a painful process, but not even a clever one!)

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     Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 02:04:08 JST Eric Matthes

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     @buttondown BTW I really hope you see some technical writers migrate from Substack for this feature alone. I shared this update in a technical writers group I'm part of.

     I haven't heard any complaints from my own subscribers, but I have heard from a number of people that highlighted code blocks really do make posts more readable. I included support for highlighted lines and filenames, which is really helpful for writing about code as well.

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     Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 02:04:08 JST Buttondown

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     • Eric Matthes

     @ehmatthes I love that! Is it your own syntax or some dialect of e.g. pygments?

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     Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 02:04:09 JST Eric Matthes

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     @buttondown Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it's that simple. Most platforms just haven't seemed to prioritize technical writing.

     When I dug into the internals of emails that were actually sent by a variety of platforms, I found plenty of CSS to support other features. It didn't take much more to support highlighting.

     If you don't mind my asking, did you find a few clients that don't handle it well? I don't have access to good email client testing tools.

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     Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 00:28:33 JST Buttondown

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     • Eric Matthes

     @ehmatthes Ask and thou shall receive ;)

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     Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 00:28:34 JST Eric Matthes

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     @buttondown BTW I'd love to see you implement this as well. It's no more difficult than syntax highlighting, adds little weight to emails, should be broadly supported by clients, and makes a world of difference when writing about code.

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     Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 09:41:29 JST Eric Matthes

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     @buttondown PS now do filenames!

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     Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 09:41:29 JST Buttondown

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     • Eric Matthes

     @ehmatthes Hmm, what do you mean by filenames?

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     Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 09:41:30 JST Eric Matthes

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     @buttondown This is fantastic! Will you support ranges? ie

     hl_lines="3 5-7 10"

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     Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 22:32:36 JST Buttondown

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     • NAAN

     @naan Got it file here, will fix soon! (https://github.com/buttondown/roadmap/issues/2814). (But in the meantime, I recommend trying out Fancy Mode!)

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     NAAN (naan@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 22:32:37 JST NAAN

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     @buttondown The new updates have been sooooo good. Smoothest time writing my updates now :ablobcatnodmeltcry:

     I think the only thing bothering me--and it's really a me thing, maybe--is that if I'm writing a long update, I have to scroll way back up to the file menu to link, adjust alignment, etc. For some reason, I keep thinking the old version had it so that the menu scrolled down with you--am I wrong in remembering that?