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About:

This userscript adds flyover buttons to every comment to fetch that comment's code (markdown).

Reference this post, and this post on Meta Stack Overflow.

Features:

  • The markdown is paste-ready for use in a post or in another comment.
  • Handy clipboard button copies the source straight to your clipboard.
  • Open-source and hosted on GitHub.
  • Has full API error handling.

Screenshot:

screenshot of comment markdown display


Platform:

This is a userscript that runs in your browser. It requires a userscript extension like Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey.


Install button: Install from GitHub

Code:

The code is on GitHub, in the BrockA/SE-misc repository.

Post bug reports and pull requests there. (Or below if you don't do GitHub.)


Known issues:

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    Thanks for introducing me to the StackExchange.helpers.show* functions!! :D Commented Apr 7, 2019 at 10:00
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    @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ, you're welcome. See also dev.stackoverflow.com/content/js/stub.js. Commented Apr 7, 2019 at 14:32
  • This doesn't work in greasemonkey - StackExchange is not defined. Commented Apr 7, 2019 at 15:47
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    @ekhumoro, Greasemonkey 4+ is majorly fubar; I no longer support GM. Switch to a different engine if you want to use this script. Commented Apr 7, 2019 at 15:55
  • For the current "threaded comments" experiment (July 2025), I propose PR 7. Commented Jul 20 at 19:50

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