If people place code examples like small matlab or python snippets, or maths equations etc...

It would be nice to have a small button to run the snippet.
-- mofosyne, Oct 18 2015

Is this a how to in python ? https://pythonspot....plugin-with-python/
There is stuff out there. [popbottle, Oct 18 2015]

No need for plugin. Works in any browser http://lmgtfy.com/?q=online+ide
[pashute, Oct 18 2015]

JS Fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/
There's an app for that! [Cuit_au_Four, Oct 22 2015]

can't argue with that.. of course a little googling would have come up with a Python browser plugin. not sure about the matlab.
-- FlyingToaster, Oct 18 2015


It's doable - you can go to sites where that sort of thing happens.
-- Loris, Oct 18 2015


//you can go to sites where that sort of thing happens// There's a phrase that seldom bodes well.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 18 2015


//JavaScript just runs on a page, what's the button for ?//

I'm not sure what to make of that. There's tonnes of javascript sitting around in buttons waiting to be clicked on.
But anyway, I think the idea was that it would be for other languages, like python- and arbitrary, user-entered code - so at the sites I mentioned presumably either there's an emulator on the client, or it gets sent to a server.
-- Loris, Oct 19 2015


More often than not, these snippets are not runnable code; that is to say they're usually incomplete. Maybe a block of code to illustrate how something is done, with some obvious variable names, but no declaration or initialization of those variables.
-- Freefall, Oct 22 2015



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