• Gestrid
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      1 month ago

      Try this:

      \> : |

      That should come out as:

      > : |

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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        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.

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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          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

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          1 month ago

          That shows up as two sets of eyebrows for me.

          • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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            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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            • Gestrid
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              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].

              • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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                @[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?