# Configure or change forum text editor?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/configure-or-change-forum-text-editor/189
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/configure-or-change-forum-text-editor/189 "2018-06-15T10:43:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/olesenm)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/configure-or-change-forum-text-editor/189/1 "2018-06-15T10:43:12Z")
The forum text editor is fine, and writing `markdown` is comfortable enough as well, but is there any way to get a preview of the content (eg, as per the gitlab editor)?
- This is quite useful especially when trying to embed a small code snippet.
- With the incorrect leading spaces, it will be accidentally rendered inline.
Or is considered normal/polite to just re-edit the post until the formatting is correct?
That’s what I was attempting now, but also to see if my mailing-list mode gets flooded with every single correction - which may lead to another topic.
/mark
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/configure-or-change-forum-text-editor/189/2 "2018-06-15T13:37:54Z")
Perhaps you have the preview hidden. You should be able to click on “show preview” on the bottom right of the text editor to see a real-time preview of how what you are typing will be rendered.
This is what I see in my editor with preview off:
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### Author:  [@olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/olesenm)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/configure-or-change-forum-text-editor/189/3 "2018-06-15T14:14:16Z")
Ah, I see it was hidden below the _helpful_ yellow side-pane, which I ignored and thus didn’t even see the tiny `esc` button.
Now its way it should be. Sorry about the noise, but also nice to test-drive the things!
Cheers,
/mark