Or how about a little check box that turns them off in the entire post? Kind of like the one under the smilies that says "disable smilies in this post"?
Not evaluating smilies inside code tags does make sense, and I'll take a look to see what I can do about that. Unfortunately this section of the codebase is unusually... baroque, and it's usually not as easy to change things as I would like. Might be worth some effort though, as people routinely overlook the "disable smilies" checkbox (and it's not obvious to newcomers that this should be necessary anyway).
Originally posted by Fred Rosenberger: Or how about a little check box that turns them off in the entire post? Kind of like the one under the smilies that says "disable smilies in this post"?
That is already a feature Fred. What is your point?