How do I quote messages? How do I tag users?

Georgina's icon

Sorry if this should be obvious but I see other users elegantly quoting messages and tagging users and I can't seem to be able to do it...

Thanks!

Wil's icon

You mean like this ?

Sorry if this should be obvious but I see other users elegantly quoting messages and tagging users and I can't seem to be able to do it...

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Georgina's icon

You mean like this ?

yes!

thanks WIL

TFL's icon

It seems the editor is compatible with markdown, so for inline code formatting you can surround the text with backtick `. So writing `text` will result in text . Or using triple backticks ``` for a code block. And usual other markdown stuff, like ** for bold, # for titles, etc.

Common shortcuts like cmd+E, cmd+B, cmd+u, cmd+I also work. I also just saw that hovering the icons in the formatting toolbar gives you the corresponding shortcuts.

Tagging user though is not really tagging (the user don't get a notification from being quoted), but the trend these days here seems to be to drag and drop the user name into the editor directly.

Roman Thilenius's icon

dragging works with regular text, too - would be cool if it also directly created a quote.