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Re:TIO: Try it online by KeyboardFire on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:20PM (#14780010)
It's not meant to be an editor. That sounds like unnecessary feature creep - the point is to run snippets of code in different languages through your web browser, not to be an IDE.
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Re:TIO: Try it online by skinnymuch on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:59PM (#14783852)
I think syntax highlighting makes sense. People do write code right into things like this. In that case, syntax highlighting helps if that's what you're used to. Also it is helpful even if copy pasting for readability if you're normally used to syntax highlighting.
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Re:TIO: Try it online by eridius on Saturday July 15, 2017 @10:21PM (#14780163)
But people still need to type those snippets. Typing up fresh code in online code runners (as opposed to pasting in pre-written code) is extremely common.
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