monkdiscuss swiftone The prospect of auto-detecting when the user failed to insert CODE tags was discussed at [Automatic CODE tags]. In particular, [Corion] came up with some basic test code [id://19270|here]. <p> Lately, there have been several posts that did not use the CODE tags. While I'm all for educating users, there will always be un-tagged posts as long as we have new users. I (re)suggest the following: <ol> <li>Users have an "auto-correct CODE tags" option, which defaults to on. This sets whether PM checks when you post. <li>If your post contains no CODE tags, <li>AND you have the auto-correct option set, <li>AND your post contains more than 5 (?) semicolons (not a heavily used punctuation in non-code), then your entire post will be wrapped in CODE tags <li>If the post is thus wrapped, "<b>CODE automatically wrapped, please use &lt;CODE&gt; &lt;/CODE&gt; tags in the future</b> (See [Site How To] for info)" is added to the top of the post. </ol> This looks fairly simple to add to the code base, doesn't effect advanced users, and tries to teach newbies, while making PM easier to navigate. <p> (We could alternatively use [Corions] code, but it looks to based too much on syntax, which will be highly variable with newbies.)