------------My support request to slack------------
Alex
Oct 31, 2:26 PM PDT
As a software developer I want to be able to use slack to communicate mono-spaced text within messages that I write without having to touch the mouse.
The recent addition of dynamic text formatting in slack breaks the preexisting markdown functionality because it is not possible for the rendering engine to guess what my intent might be on the fly.
for example if I type this message:
The uuid portion is `D6B9E544-2306-41E7-9841-FF7E2AE0A5A4`_filename.txt
but then realize that I actually wanted a hyphen instead of an underscore before the word 'filename' there is no way to accomplish this without deleting and retyping "-filename.txt" (or doing a fancy trick where you add "f-filename.txt" and then delete the leading f)
This is not a failing of your system which is quite well implemented, it is simply a matter of WYSIWYG systems not being capable of rendering text with the same precision as markdown systems.
I suggest that you make the WYSIWYG text formatting a toggleable feature for people in the software development community.
---------their very nice but not helpful response--------
Hey Alex,
Thanks for writing in, though I'm sorry to hear WYSIWYG formatting is not working for you and your team as developers. It's not currently possible to turn this off, but I can certainly understand your reasoning here, and will share this feedback with the team so that we can best understand what the right solution is.
Please note, I can't promise that we'll be making this optional anytime soon, but will let the team know why it's not working in your case.
Sorry this isn't the answer you were looking for today Alex, but thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback with us.
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Alex Oct 31, 2:26 PM PDT
As a software developer I want to be able to use slack to communicate mono-spaced text within messages that I write without having to touch the mouse. The recent addition of dynamic text formatting in slack breaks the preexisting markdown functionality because it is not possible for the rendering engine to guess what my intent might be on the fly.
for example if I type this message:
The uuid portion is `D6B9E544-2306-41E7-9841-FF7E2AE0A5A4`_filename.txt
but then realize that I actually wanted a hyphen instead of an underscore before the word 'filename' there is no way to accomplish this without deleting and retyping "-filename.txt" (or doing a fancy trick where you add "f-filename.txt" and then delete the leading f)
This is not a failing of your system which is quite well implemented, it is simply a matter of WYSIWYG systems not being capable of rendering text with the same precision as markdown systems.
I suggest that you make the WYSIWYG text formatting a toggleable feature for people in the software development community.
---------their very nice but not helpful response-------- Hey Alex,
Thanks for writing in, though I'm sorry to hear WYSIWYG formatting is not working for you and your team as developers. It's not currently possible to turn this off, but I can certainly understand your reasoning here, and will share this feedback with the team so that we can best understand what the right solution is.
Please note, I can't promise that we'll be making this optional anytime soon, but will let the team know why it's not working in your case.
Sorry this isn't the answer you were looking for today Alex, but thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback with us.
All the best,
Susie