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When you left the phone charging overnight, but it was not plugged properly (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You know, I think it's something with the formatting here where it makes the slash disappear. Not sure what syntax I'd need to use to make the whole thing appear properly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Two slashes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a markdown dialect, \ is the escape char, so you need to escape it :)
Same as r*ddit in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

¯\(ツ)/¯

Except double slashes makes the underscores disappear.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So... it looks like adding a slash before the slash and before each underscore does the trick. Thanks!

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

Markdown uses underscores for italic, which is why they also need to be escaped with backslashes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Although I know this, I cannot remember where I need to escape. So I just have two custom autocorrections: shrug which yields the regular (and broken on Lemmy) ¯_(ツ)_/¯ for general use and shrugmd with the markdown variant for the use on e.g. Lemmy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the end it's:

    shrug: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
    shrugmd: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only need the 3 slashes on the right arm, like so:

¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Technically correct, but back, when Reddit allowed 3rd party apps, I did get the occasional "Hey you lost something" comment, as some apps had a broken markdown rendered that wouldn't display it without.

Also it can have side effects if you use an underscore in the same paragraph or use it twice in a row, as it then suddenly can render as italic.

¯\_(ツ)/¯ Not sure how Lemmy reacts, though ¯\_(ツ)/¯