Unsolicited formatting help

If you want to see the arrows and not format as a quote throw some backslashes in front of the less than signs.

\> Typing this > Gets this

Otherwise, if you want to get rid of the gaps between the quote lines then put less than signs on the empty lines.

> Typing > > this

Gets

this

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dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Unsolicited naming advice

Less Than points to the left < (shape of an L), while Greater Than points to the right > (I got nothing other than it’s not an L).

I believe it’s because we read from left to right, so the prominent number is on the left (I.e., 8 is less than 10 = 8 < 10).

Anyways, great advice! Carry on!

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- Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You are right! The funny thing is I was trying to think of it that way and got it backwards anyway. Not enough mental RAM left after work for that kind of thing, apparently.
  
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kabi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh nice, I’ve been using these \ things, we’ll see if it’s even rendered here
  
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Shoot, there’s another way that involves turning the entire comment into plaintext code but I can’t remember the method.

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ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
> thank you

> for your service

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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
i believe if you do a double space at the end of each line it also stops automatic word wraping. Cute little trick. IDK why it works that way, it’s kind of stupid, but whatever.

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Unsolicited naming advice