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I had thought those where your words at first, you can quote like this;
I'm struggling to show you what symbol it is without it turning into a quote, so here's a picture of the greater than symbol;
To display formatting characters without having them actually affect formatting, put a backslash in front of them. Like this:
\>
That produces this:
>
>
nice, thanks for that
The "\" is a so called "escape character" in thise case. Just FYI :)
Oh, nice! So I set the quote in between the greater then and less then symbols and it will show the quote? That is pretty cool. Thank you.
Not quite I think. I believe this uses markdown, which just uses the > at the beginning of a line
> This is a quote
should become
And if you need more lines, you just keep symboling
> 1
> 2
> 3
Feels like I'm back on Reddit circa 2015 LOL
This never changed for those of us who used old reddit ;)
I had no idea it was different for new Reddit, I never touched that interface except to hurriedly find my preferences and set them back to Old. :)
I think it has a wysiwyg editor or something.
Well it did because everyone on old Reddit already knew how to use it LOL
And I believe you can do a multi line quote with 3:
>>> hello darkness my old friend
I've come to speak with you again
More
Lines
Unless I'm wrong and this isn't actually working
Hmm well that looks like it worked too well
> test
With
Several
Lines
Nah, multi-line is just
You only need multiple > if you want paragraphs:
Yes but when can we use ||spoilers||
>!Testing!<is the Reddit spoiler syntax, not working yet, though: >!Test!<And also confirming that the Lemmy spoiler syntax does not work on kbin.
You don’t need multiple
>unless you want to quote paragraphs, see my comment further down