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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! Couldn't get it to work with the formatting :[

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Let me try this.

:|

I give up.

[–] Pyro 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

>>:|

Backslashes to the rescue!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try this:

\> : |

That should come out as:

> : |

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it.
Are you replying to "Except fun fact…no." - u/[email protected]
Or to my reply to it, that implies, maybe their renderer is non-standard and causing the backslashes to not work.

\>\>:| --> >>:| works pretty well for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

this is a whole mess of confusion and miscommunication that probably absolutely no one cares about, and I for one am happy to just watch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That shows up as two sets of eyebrows for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see, so the confusion is about whether u/[email protected] intended the double eyebrow or they made a mistake with that and are being corrected for it.

I thought they wanted the double eyebrow, because why would you put 2 if you only wanted one? And if you wanted the "quote" option, you would just not escape the leftmost ">".


In case my above words are more confusing, Yes, it shows up as 2 sets of eyebrows for me too.
I thought that's what the Thread Starter wanted.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, they were trying to make only one set of eyebrows appear. They tried fixing it by using two sets, thinking using one as a quote would make the other appear as a set of eyebrows. Instead, they got two quotes.

Also, you type usernames on Lemmy like this: @[email protected].

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@[email protected].

👍

But then they also went ahead and put backlashes on both of them. That makes me unsure.
Also, do your UIs not have the "Preview" and "view source" features?