Today's tutorial answer: unix.stackexchange.com/a/426356/116858

@user9303970 have you tried asking Simon Tatham about your PuTTY problems? Because it sounds like a configuration issue or a PuTTY bug to me...

Does anyone know how to put a \ into inline code?

@Jesse_b "inline code"?

`code`

I commonly see it referred to as inline code on different markdown guides

vs a code block

a backslash? shouldn't it work straight up? like here: foo\nbar

The backtick is harder, I think you need to use <code> blocks and backslash+backtick

if I try just \ it doesn't work

There we go: Two back ticks

\ (yeah, it's tricky. Put a space after the \ ).

right, so it works differently in answers vs. comments and the chat.

Ok, I'm now about to break the 16-bit reputation boundary... Or it'll be tomorrow as that pesky cap is in the way.

@Kusalananda stack overflow

I guess that is confusing since it's the name of one of the sites :p

I'll wrap around and land on -65536 rep.

John Skeet seems to just have broken the 1M rep barrier on SO.

@Kusalananda: Your cat avatar looks like a cartoon unicorn in the thumbnail :p I have looked at it bigger like 4 times now but I still can't get the unicorn image out of my head

:-)

@Jesse_b instagram.com/p/BDF_QU8E6BA

cats win the internet

@Jesse_b There, I've changed it.

@Kusalananda Hah, Looks grump in that pic. I wasn't saying anything negative about the old one just that it kept tricking my eyes in the thumbnail

Oh well, I'll change it in a few weeks again.

Now: bed.

@Jesse_b Actually, I thought that avatar was a large rat. Are you sure it's supposed to be a cat? Either way, I don't much care for it. I think @Kusalananda should go back to using an image of his handsome face. Assuming it's really him, and not a male model, of course.

@FaheemMitha Hah, you scared him off

@Jesse_b Hmm?

It looks like he just left chat after that message

@Jesse_b Oh