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minus-squaremusicmind333@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago@trashgirlfriend @schmorpel noob question, how do you include the previous comment in your response text?
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago> at the start of the sentence makes a quote Like this
minus-squaremusicmind333@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago@trashgirlfriend >Oh!!! Wait but how did you do the > without the quote? > Add a space? Hmmmm
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agobackslashes remove all formatting so *hello* can be written as \*hello* without becoming hello you can also escape other backslashes
minus-squaremusicmind333@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago@trashgirlfriend >Hello \>hello *whoa* 👌👌👌thanks for the tip! Is there like a list of all the secret formatting stuff that’s available?
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoUhh not sure. I think the formatting is called Markdown? But sites like this usually use a limited form of it, so I’m not entirely sure. The italics, bold, link formatting , quotes etc are all pretty common.
@trashgirlfriend @schmorpel noob question, how do you include the previous comment in your response text?
> at the start of the sentence makes a quote
@trashgirlfriend
>Oh!!!
Wait but how did you do the > without the quote?
> Add a space?
Hmmmm
backslashes remove all formatting so *hello* can be written as \*hello* without becoming hello
you can also escape other backslashes
@trashgirlfriend
>Hello
\>hello
*whoa*
👌👌👌thanks for the tip!
Is there like a list of all the secret formatting stuff that’s available?
Uhh not sure.
I think the formatting is called Markdown? But sites like this usually use a limited form of it, so I’m not entirely sure.
The italics, bold, link formatting , quotes etc are all pretty common.