How to get inline pseudo-comments for extensions?

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Some of the examples in RB (for example: 11 “First Name Basis”) have regular text interspersed with the example code, in such a way that when you click on the “copy” icon only the example code is copied over.

Can this be done when creating an extension?

What I’ve tried so far:

  1. Unindented or indented comments (using square brackets) – are simply left out of the example text entirely.
  2. Unindented uncommented text – causes the example code to be copied only up until that point.
  3. Indented uncommented text – is treated as part of the example code itself.
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No, I don’t think so.

3

Thanks for the confirmation, zarf.

For anyone else interested, I see there’s already a uservoice suggestion about this:

inform7.uservoice.com/forums/573 … esentation

I’ve added my vote.

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As is mentioned in that Uservoice suggestion, you can at least add separate copy buttons for each contiguous part of your example code (by prefixing each section with “*:”). Obviously this isn’t ideal, but it’s better than having a single copy button that only copies some of the code.