Although I know this, I cannot remember where I need to escape. So I just have two custom autocorrections: shrug which yields the regular (and broken on Lemmy) ¯_(ツ)_/¯ for general use and shrugmd with the markdown variant for the use on e.g. Lemmy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Markdown uses underscores for italic, which is why they also need to be escaped with backslashes.
Although I know this, I cannot remember where I need to escape. So I just have two custom autocorrections:
shrugwhich yields the regular (and broken on Lemmy) ¯_(ツ)_/¯ for general use andshrugmdwith the markdown variant for the use on e.g. Lemmy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯In the end it’s:
shrug: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ shrugmd: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯Only need the 3 slashes on the right arm, like so: