Make [pre] tags ignore all other markup enclosed withinFollow

A minor thing but one I've seen functional on a number of other sites, and it always bugs me when I can't use it here to teach newbies to this forum how the markup tags work. The problem is it still tries to parse most if not all the tags, so if I'm trying to demonstrate the finer points of using quote or URL tags, I have to sub other bracket types, which tends to obfuscate things slightly.

It just seems logical to me that if I'm using pre tags then I'm kind of intentionally trying to discard markup, rather than it parse into a monotype :p

Please and thank you :D

Also I have pizza, donuts, cookies, and Bawls if anybody needs some...'motivation' on the subject >.>

Edited, Jan 15th 2009 11:54pm by Norellicus

I'd have to say you'd need an entire different set of tags for that, probably [code][/code] or something. Right now pre tags are used to organize stuff so that it lines up properly, and due to that it is put around large amounts of text, as seen here. If pre tags worked the way you want them to then I wouldn't be able to color code anything at all.

Edited, Jan 16th 2009 1:41am by Deadgye

Well, to be honest, no I didn't.

But it'd still be nice to use tags for just the parts I want to do that with so I can use formatting where I want to elsewhere if it's a long post. :P

color and bold (and such) within [pre] is really valuable for reporting parses.