onion, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) Lemmy interprets some symbols as formatting commands, for example putting a # at the start of a line turns it into a header: header You can tell it to not do that by putting a backslash before the symbol: # not a header The backslash is called the escape symbol.
Lemmy interprets some symbols as formatting commands, for example putting a # at the start of a line turns it into a header:
You can tell it to not do that by putting a backslash before the symbol:
# not a header
The backslash is called the escape symbol.