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Virgin Markdown, HTML vs chad plain Text (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by r1ck@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Markdown is so annoying. I wanted to record a command in Joplin and had the audacity to make it bold to highlight something. Pasted it into their terminal and it put a bunch of asterisks in. Thanks.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Try pasting commands into code blocks.

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

If they wanted to make a specific part of the command bold, that still wouldn't work.

Could underline the part, I guess, like this:

ls -la
   ###

(# starts a comment in shell syntax, so doesn't get run, in case someone pastes the whole thing.)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It does format text in the editor pane by default now but uses a big warning with a button to disable it.

However, the built-in code highlighter, much
like in many Lemmy frontends, highlights
some words/symbols depending on the default
language. Therefore, it's best to not use 
4 spaces at the start of each line for a code block.

Instead, this one starts with "```text" and 
ends with "```". No extra indents and I get
to specify the highlighting language!

Edit: Damn

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm, interesting. I always write Markdown unformatted, so where I put the asterisks in myself. So, that's a decent reality check, I guess.