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I'm not a smart man, Jenny. Could we get a Lemmy formatting helper pop-up in the comment/text entry box somewhere? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There is probably a link somewhere but it would be nice to have the essentials in the boost comment/post forms somewhere so that if I'm trying to remember how to link a user/forum/instance or how to strikethrough text it would be right there.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the language is called "Markdown", same as what Reddit and Discord use, as well as many others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown#Examples

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Discord markdown and reddit markdown aren't the same markdown, which I only know because I try to use ^ to make smaller words but discord won't do it.

I wonder ^if ^^lemmy ^^^let's ^^^^me ^^^^^do ^^^^^^this

It certainly does not. Maybe that's just a reddit thing. Or my app doesn't support it, idk.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Flavors of markdown are slightly different, but they share a lot in common. Also Boost has slightly different rendering than the Lemmy website UI, specifically with the spoiler tags

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

True, I feel boost is really lacking in displaying correctly markdown. Spoilers not being hidden are really annoying.
For reference this post highlights Lemmy apps on how accurately they display markdown. And this comment use all markdown to test how your current app is rendering them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This guide for the Lemmy dialect looks to be reasonably comprehensive:

https://lemmy.ml/post/2255242

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Because markdown by itself is more of a set of suggestions than hard rules. Kinda like saying that Americans and Australians both speak English and the basic syntax is the same, and you can go outside with a fag wearing only thongs with both, but...

Even reddit has two, new and old reddit use completely different parsers and result in different ouputs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It shows correctly on sync

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Neither PC nor Jerboa show that getting increasingly smaller and higher for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you for the link. It has some examples, I guess that's what I'm asking for, and obviously what is included could be tweaked based on Lemmy differences, exclude things that are already in the quick format bar, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I see icons along the bottom of the field, which I can tap for formatting changes. Could you check if you have something similar?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I have that (and actually found out it can scroll to the side and there is a quick link for strikethrough!) but I'd also like stuff like "embedding gifs" and other stuff that is not commonly known.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks; to be clear, most if not all of this if searchable on the web, it's more having it easily referenced from within boost's text entry field somewhere as a "?" Help menu or something so that all users won't have to do that each time was my suggestion/request from Ruben.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the markup be the same for gifs and any other image format?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes but there currently isnt a button to embed images that you arent uploading from your phone. The image button only lets you upload, not enter a remote image URL. Maybe that would be the easiest one to change for @[email protected] ?