Inline code formatting

I consider this very important and really hope the team can make it happen
I use tana to organize my projects at internships and at school and at both these places I used code snippets as resources as well as a scratch pad for quickly scribbling ideas back on roam. It's easily the feature I miss the most!

Capacities code stuff seems to be praised by its users, maybe that would be a good inspiration:

I use markdown inline code to document my coding knowledge thus I'm eagerly waiting Tana to support it to switch! It should not be the most difficult feature to deliver, isn't it?

As a software engineering student, I would love to see this so I can fully adopt Tana and add my course material.

+100. I am currently keeping my programming notes in Logseq because Tana does not support proper code blocks (can't paste longer than 100 lines) and inline preformatted text.

console.log('Even this comment field supports this.');

Both Capacities and Logseq have great implementations of this.

Logseq just uses CodeMirror — it's free and completely open source: https://codemirror.net/.

Please consider prioritizing this! It would be a game-changer for anyone who uses Tana to keep technical/programming-related notes!

I have the same opinion.
Before Tana, I use Logseq which code block and inline code is great and easy to use.
I hope Tana can support inline code !

I have a lot of the same problems with code formatting in Tana:

• It does not autodetect language
• It does not allow you to search the code language using letters (for example if i want SQL i would like to be able to find it by clicking "s"). Because this is not possible i have to scroll everytime until i find my language of choice.
• The limit to 100 lines is a problem, because some code is long
• There is no numbered lines in the code

Please fix this so that i can fully embrace Tana for my technical notes (and stop using notion for this)

Came back to check on this, was disappointed not to see any movement. If only I could add more votes to this. Absolutely essential feature! Even the comments here have inline preformatting.

I just hit this again. I think it is nearly a universal expectation now that text inside backticks gains code formatting, even if the input style isn't markdown.

Any movement on this? I found out that if you paste text from elsewhere that is styled as such (probably wrapped with <pre> tags in HTML) then Tana accepts it and handles the styling properly.

All I’m asking is for Tana to add the backticks as a formatting trigger!

Makes no sense to be pasting code from another text editor just to get this to work.

I would also like a more useful option than “paste as code” for longer code blocks, but that’s another idea

Should we make this a new thread entirely? The Paste as Code feature is quite limited.

I feel very constrained that this does nothing

Backtick ` should without a doubt be an option to write inline code. Come on Tana, please resolve.

+1 for this... I'm a Software Engineer and absolutely need multi-line code blocks with language recognition and syntax highlighting!

Thank you, works great!

Now for multi-line blocks, although paste as code handles multi-line blocks in a somewhat sufficient way, adding a feature to format an existing node as code, or even type a node as code, would br a great feature improvement.

Would be great if closing with a backtick can format code directly without needing to highlight the text in the first place.

@Matt M Is there any news or plan on improving code formatting in general? Overall I love tana and all its features but working with code really isn't great.