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One of the long standing feature requests to add a "copy code" button to questions has been implemented on Stack Overflow. For an example, see this question about beamer on SO to try out the button yourself.

According to a comment by a SE staff member, this can be requested for other SE sites as well.

The suggested procedure is to raise it on the site-specific Meta, and if there is community support then a site moderator can add to notify the Community Manager. Additionally, we are encouraged to leave an answer on the Meta.SE announcement linked above.

There seems to be a demand for this feature on TeX.SE as well. For example:

So the question is: do we want to request this feature to be enabled on TeX.SE or not?

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    I would argue that 9 upvotes on this less-than-3-month-old question should be enough community support for a moderator to status-review this right away Commented Nov 4 at 23:54
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    I added the [featured] tag earlier, just to ensure that the community has the greatest chance to see this discussion and weigh in. :) Commented Nov 7 at 17:23
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    Yes please!!!!! Commented Nov 7 at 19:43
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    YES YES YES YES. Commented Nov 7 at 20:41
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    Yes Yes Yes, please Commented Nov 7 at 22:00
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    meta.stackexchange.com/questions/414573/… and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/414573/… Commented Nov 7 at 22:38
  • @V2Blast is this enough? or are we meant to do something else? Commented Nov 16 at 23:21
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    @cfr: I've added the [status-review] tag to create a ticket for the CM team to handle this. Commented Nov 17 at 16:10
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    @V2Blast Diolch! Thanks! :-) Commented Nov 17 at 17:44

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Yes, let's ask the CMs to activate this on TeX SE.

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    plus we don't need language detection: they can assume it is all tex unless explicitly marked o/w :-) Commented Nov 5 at 2:34
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No, we should not make any changes to how code is handled.

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    To be clear, I'm in favor of the change (and voted for it). But it seems if the question is "A or B", then we should have the option to vote for "B". Commented Nov 5 at 1:57

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