How do I disable auto-format of text in areas like Comments?

[Blue K]

I have a well-defined way I like to do things, and the text auto-formatting in Comments is getting in the way. Every time I try to put a "-" at the beginning of a line, it assumes I want a bulleted list, and auto-formats what I was trying to do. This slows me down, and makes it so things don't look like I expect/want them to.

How do I turn off auto-format while typing in areas like Comments?

[Jack Brickey]

the only option would be to disable WYSIWYG via Jira labs but that changes other things as well --> click avatar > personal settings.

[Blue K]

What "other" things does this impact? If it's too catastrophic or pervasive, that doesn't really seem like a fix. You should just be able to declare a field "do not auto format".

[Jack Brickey]

that is conveyed in the personal setting where you disable. Basically you go back to the old issue view. this only impacts your view not for all users.

[chaim H]

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-turn-off-AutoFormatting-in-our-Issue-text-fields/qaq-p/779704

Rodolfo Apr 23, 2018 • edited

Hi Hunter, you can achieve this by adding one of these macros around the text you want to not be autoformatted:

• {code}<text here>{code}
• {noformat}<text here>{noformat}