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edemaine / cocreate

Cocreate Shared Whiteboard/Drawing
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multiline text boxes #152

Closed sdspikes closed 3 years ago

sdspikes commented 3 years ago

I'm considering using this tool (within a gather.town space) for whiteboarding for a data structures and algorithms course (e.g. to draw pointer diagrams + write pseudo-code/code), and it would be much more useful/useable for that purpose if I could have multiline text blocks. I tried it out by myself just now with separate text boxes per line and it was a pretty bad experience.

Even better would be the ability to embed something like repl.it for code editing + evaluation, but just being able to type multi-line text would be a big improvement.

Apologies if this is already possible and I just missed it!

edemaine commented 3 years ago

@sdspikes Text boxes already support multiple lines. Just press Enter to start a new line. (Or what server are you using? Perhaps it's running an old version?)

Update: I see now that you mentioned gather.town. You'll have to ask gather.town to update to the latest version of Cocreate...

``` isn't currently supported by the very simple Markdown parser, but ` does work across the multiple lines, it seems. Fine as long as your code doesn't have any `s in it. 🙂