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Unable to express anger in ASCII without using a backslash escape, interpreted as quote by Markdown.

See original GitHub issue

Your use case

What would you like to do?

Express anger to my friends using ASCII emotes, such as >:( >:[ >:c and others

Why would you like to do it?

Because I’m mad.

How would you like to achieve it?

Requiring a space between the ‘>’ and the quoted text. Discord does this fwiw

Have you considered any alternatives?

Flipping my anger the other way, ):< ]:<

Additional context

😦

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

t3chguycommented, Jan 25, 2022

I think maintaining good documentation and maybe a tool like Dingus too will be important.

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anoadragon453commented, Dec 15, 2022

Personally, I’ve seen different friends hit this bug many a time - they’re used to other chat apps which don’t create a block quote when typing >x, like Telegram and Discord. Telegram doesn’t support block quotes, Discord will only create one if a space is added afterwards.

But due to Discord’s live markdown preview, this surprise is experienced before a message is sent.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1342360/150884738-056f2da0-1d7b-4c97-a6d2-1753d1567649.mp4

which saves one from finding out after having sent a message. (this is tracked at https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/20360).

Regardless of WYSIWYG functionality though, the same argument can be made for <del>strikethrough</del>. Users expect ~~this syntax~~ to work (https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/529). We’re also still lacking a way to send inline spoilers (https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/869).

I disagree that a custom dialogue would be little gain, as it would allow us to support the above syntax. I’m also unconvinced that it would be too much work to support. Other chat apps do it – why can’t Element?

markdown-it is a markdown parser with support for plugins for custom syntax. discord-markdown is a from-scratch library that tries to mimic discord’s markdown syntax.

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