Comment on PLEAAASSEE PLEASE COME BACK TO THE OFFICE PLS

• Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, I know. I went through it once.

  The tricky bit is that a lot of scripting/programming languages reserve the backslash for special stuff. For example, “\n” means a line break. When you pasted the right arm (which is seen on the left ; ) ), lemmy’s editor expected a special thingy, so it was kind and removed the backslash for you. The secret is to post it with a double backslash, like this: "\"

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  • stochasticity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m familiar with this particular way of handling characters, was unaware lemmy did it tho, cheers!

    Can’t decide if I should change my post. I suppose leaving it is armless.

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