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I am having a hard time understanding the mini markdown editing of the comments.This guide about comment formatting is incomplete if new users can't experiment with formatting comments without writing a real comment. Either please show the preview in comments as well or provide us with some sort of "Try now" area there .

If there is already some kind of provision for trying out mini-markdown formatting without writing an actual comment, please tell me.

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    Despite the sandbox on meta, an actual comment preview would probably be a nice feature. Commented Jul 12, 2015 at 15:03

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You can use the StackExchange Formatting Sandbox question:

You can use this question as a formatting sandbox. You can

  • edit this question itself (Community Wiki questions such as this one require 100 reputation to edit)
  • post answers to this question (Since this question is protected, this requires earning 10 reputation on this site)
  • post comments to this question or its answers
  • test suspected bugs with the editor
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  • That's pretty cool. Unfortunately, I wouldn't have known it existed had I not found this question in the "Hot Meta Posts"sidebar. It doesn't seem to be referenced in either the main editing-help or editing-help#comment-formatting pages. Commented Jul 12, 2015 at 18:15
  • @Hephaestus That's why the OP has made a feature request ;) Commented Jul 12, 2015 at 18:28
  • Indeed. That's also why I upvoted his feature request. ;-) Commented Jul 12, 2015 at 18:36

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