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For the last few days I've noticed that when editing questions to improve their formatting that the markdown preview no longer appears. This is a huge pain, especially when attempting to edit large questions which contain snippets.

It makes it doubly annoying when all you would need to do to fix the formatting of a large code block is open the snippet editor and click 'Tidy'.

Has this been done intentionally? If so, why? Is it possible that we could revert back to the old UI for editing a question?

For reference, this is an image of a question which contains a snippet that I'm trying to edit. And this is how it appears when I click the edit button. Note the lack of preview and no snippet editor available.

asked Sep 8, 2016 at 15:52
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  • What OS and browser? Do you have any user scripts installed? Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 16:23
  • OSX 10.10.5, Chrome 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit). No user scripts, and I tried disabling adblocker too, just in case. Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 16:35
  • No errors in the console. Behaviour reproduced on Chrome 52.0.2743.116 m on Windows 10. Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 18:55
  • I updated the question with a couple of images showing the issue Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 18:59

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Click "show preview":

answered Sep 8, 2016 at 20:03
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    Well, I'm an idiot. Is this a new button? I swear I've never seen it before. If it's always been there I guess I must have mis-clicked it without realising. Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 20:26
  • @RoryMcCrossan It's always been there. Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 20:28
  • No defence then, I'm a 100% certified idiot :) Thanks Commented Sep 8, 2016 at 20:28

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