STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Post a comment on a bug 2. It seems to support some flavor of markdown, for example ">" for quoting (that's actually the _only_ one I've been able to figure out), so much so that there's a preview option 3. So, I want to see what formats are supported OBSERVED RESULT There's no button or link to any form of markdown help, or documentation of the supported formats, that I've been able to find EXPECTED RESULT Very near to the textarea where I'm typing my comment, there should be a link to a markdown help that either hopens in a separate page or shows as a popup, where I can learn how to paste a block of code, how to do bold text, or if none of these are supported at all. For example I'm used to posting the output of commands between ``` and ```, which works in many bugtrackers but not this one, so I wanted to see if there's some other syntax for that.
It does not in fact support Markdown, unfortunately. All it supports is ">" for quotes, which you've already figured out.
Well there should be a way for the user to know that, other than try every possible format until I'm satisfied that I have tried everything. If you feel like adding a "formatting help" link only to list ">" is embarrassing, then add markdown support instead.
Unfortunately we can't; the text comes from Bugzilla itself.
Created attachment 161328 [details] Bugzilla does seem to support markdown Oh this is Bugzilla! So maybe what you _can_ do is update it?
That's not a publicly-released version; the Mozilla people use a fork with various featured bolted on--markdown support included. Markdown support is scheduled to be included in the next major public release of Bugzilla.