Tips and tricks: E-mail alerts, formatting, account settings
Overview
- E-mail alerts / subscribing to a topic
- Account settings (avatar, signatures, etc.)
- Formatting your post
E-mail alerts/ subscribing to a topic
In order to subscribe to a single topic (so you will get E-mail notifications for new posts) you can click on the big yellow star to the right of the topic title. For more advanced auto-subscribe options, go to Account -> E-mail subscriptions.
Account settings (avatar, signatures, etc.)
You can configure your account by clicking on 'Account' in the top panel.
Formatting
The forum supports Markdown extra syntax.
Links, bold, italic, etc.
[OpenSesame](http://osdoc.cogsci.nl) will be shown as "OpenSesame"
*Some text* will be shown as "Some text"
**Some text** will be shown as "Some text"
Code snippets
Short code snippets that are part of a text:
This text has a `code_snippet()` in it ... will be shown as ... "This text has a code_snippet() in it".
Blocks of code:
~~~ .python
def my_function():
print 'Python code'
~~~
... will be shown as ...
def my_function():
print 'Python code'
You can also use http://www.pastebin.com or http://gist.github.com to embed code snippets. For an explanation, see the boxes below.
pastebin.com
[pastebin:fW2Vmmhb]
gist.github.com:
[gist:3504321]
Quotes
> This will be quoted
... will be shown as ...
This will be quoted
Comments
Hey everyone!
I had trouble to use the code snippet function. Could someone plaease explain it for Dummies? :-P
best regards,
timo
Hi Timo,
The best way to embed snippets of code in the text is with the
~~~syntax, like so:This will be rendered as:
Does that clear things up? So the forum will automatically interpret the
~~~characters as indicating a code snippet. The.pythonis optional and indicates that you want Python syntax highlighting.Cheers,
Sebastiaan
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