This has been and continues to be a serious weakness of Confluence and Hipchat.

Confluence is used heavily by software teams. Software teams speak in sentences mixed with code. Forcing us to use code blocks that break the flow of a sentence is a really poor flow.

Slack gets this 100% right. I can type:

We should really consider using `const toolpane =` instead of using `var toolpane =` when we don't expect the variable to change

That should just work. Meaning it will auto-format my inline code snippets. It works on Slack. It works on Github. It is high-time it works on Confluence as well. 

Anything less is just a bad experience. I haven't met a single person yet who disagrees with that.

I recently onboarded 25 people to Confluence. And damn, every single technical person struggled with this. Such friction!

Why not support this? Why force us into the slow, annoying macro workflow. Just follow the rest of the software world and let us use ` and ```.

Atlassian Status as of August 2018

Since we've started to gradually roll out a new editing experience, we've addressed this as part of the new experience and you can learn more about it by following these links:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-editing-improvements-945107733.html)
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/keyboard-shortcuts-markdown-and-autocomplete-724764956.html) 

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