Showing literal backticks in posts here

JonB

I sometimes find myself wanting to tell posters to put their code inside the triple-backticks at start & end. Does anyone know of a way I can produce literal, monospace (code), triple-backticks to show them visibly in a post in this forum?

The following shows it using single-quote characters:

'''

I can produce that with backticks by putting a space between each one:

` ` `

Can anyone figure a way to type to make that appear without the spaces? :) Plus a bonus point if you can make the triple-backticks appear in-line instead of in a block of their own!

sierdzio

Testing...

```

sierdzio

OK, it worked but outside of any code block :/ You need to prefix each backtick with a backslash.

Now in a code block:

\```

I've just put a single backslash in front of all 3 backticks, but it is being printed, that is bad.

```

Aha!

So, summary for everybody: use 3x tilde ~ to wrap around 3 visible backticks.

mrjj

Hi
Ahhh.
alt text

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JonB

@sierdzio , @mrjj
Sorry, I''m not following what you guys are doing, can you be more explicit? And tildes don't seem to work for me.
I would like the triple-backtick to come out as code/literal/monspace I can't even tell whether yours are?

And, what about the triple-backtick in-line: ''' <- like this but with backticks?

Please try to explain for an idiot like em exactly what you want me to type?

Triple-tilde, then triple-backtick, then triple-tilde:

```

Oh! Are triple-tildes like triple-ticks for code blocks then?

What about these backticks but in-line?

sierdzio

Nope, tilde does not work inline :-(

```
Oh! This works! So it is: backtick space 3xbacktick space backtick

JonB

@sierdzio
Hello ``` world!

Oh, OK! I promised a "bonus point" for that, but I think the need to put the spaces in deducts from that? :)

Going back to tildes/block, you didn't answer:

Oh! Are triple-tildes like triple-ticks for code blocks then?

sierdzio

@JonB said in Showing literal backticks in posts here:

@sierdzio
Hello ``` world!

Oh, OK! I promised a "bonus point" for that, but I think the need to put the spaces in deducts from that? :)

Going back to tildes/block, you didn't answer:

Oh! Are triple-tildes like triple-ticks for code blocks then?

Seems so.

int nothing = 0;
function();

int nothing = 0;
function();

First block is created with tildes, second with backticks.

JonB

@sierdzio
And where is this documented...? :)

Thanks, great answers, I'll try to remember the two ways for block- or in-line.

sierdzio

@JonB said in Showing literal backticks in posts here:

@sierdzio
And where is this documented...? :)

Dunno, it was just a guess :-)

It seems to be part of Markdown: https://sourceforge.net/p/tilde/wiki/markdown_syntax/#md_ex_code but most guides for MD do not mention it. Some claim it's for preformatted text and not for code.

Thanks, great answers, I'll try to remember the two ways for block- or in-line.

There seems to be another way (since NodeBB supports Markdown syntax): Use TWO backticks if you want to use backticks inside of a block.

like `this`, see?

It's described in https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#code

JonB

@sierdzio
Just resurrecting this after 4 years :)

You get a double-extra-bonus point if you can find anyway of showing a line of ``` (triple-backtick) inside a multiline code block

multi line
show line of 3-backticks here, how? for example, ` ``` ` can't be used it shows too many
multi line
show line of 3-backticks here, how?
multi line

So that one can show exactly what users can type to do multiline code blocks.

Reason is https://forum.qt.io/topic/156437/ui-detect-mouse-event-on-objects/16, where you can see I cannot get my ``` lines inside the code block as I would like.

:)

SGaist

Testing something:

``` ```

\```

JonB

:) Neither of those is good enough...! I cannot find any way to put ``` into middle of a code block ;)

Pl45m4

@JonB

Hello
``` 
World
```
triple single backticks
```

Edit:
Like this @JonB ?

Since NodeBB uses markdown language and the "blocks" / paragraphs of text or code can be "cascaded" (wanky description from my side XD ) , you can choose four single backticks for your code style and then three single ones can be rendered inside properly even without escaping them.
Not sure if bug or feature :3
But it seems to work

JonB

@Pl45m4 said in Showing literal backticks in posts here:

you can choose four single backticks for your code style and then three single ones can be rendered inside properly even without escaping them.

Ohhhh! And where did you find that documented?!

abc
```
def

Which I wrote as:

````
abc
```
def
````

!! ;-)

Pl45m4

@JonB said in Showing literal backticks in posts here:

Ohhhh! And where did you find that documented?!

Nowhere, was a mix of trial and error and somewhere on StackOverflow, which uses the same markup style, was mentioned that you can "stack" these sections.
Because three backticks are no longer limiting the code block, you can display them.
I think you can extend that infinitely. Eight, nine, ten or more "layers", while n - 1 times the character which sets up your section is not affected and is displayed properly.

Edit:

From clicking the "Help" button, I found out that you can also display three backticks using a 4 - space - indentation (in this case it's always four spaces to define the code block).

Hello
```
World

written like:

____ Hello
____ ```
____ World

Btw:
Just look at this ;-)
(Markup is fun :D)

Hello World