Messaging

Mentions

You can ‘ping’ or mention people by @-ing them. The UI will show you an autocomplete window that displays the users based on what you typed so far. Instead of clicking on the user, you can also select the first option by pressing TAB.

> @bo

┌──────────┐
│ > bob    │  ← Select with TAB
│ boris    │
└──────────┘

Similarly to mentioning users, you can also mention text channels. You do this by typing a hash (#), followed by the channel name. The same autocomplete window will appear where you can select the first option again by pressing TAB.

> #a

┌────────────────────┐
│ > announcements    │  ← Select with TAB
│ active-projects    │
└────────────────────┘

Markup

Convinator supports a subset of markdown in messages. Supported options are:

• Text headings:
  Add hashes (#) before a sentence to make the text a heading. Smallest heading is h4.

  # Large heading
  
  ## Smaller heading
  
  ### Even smaller heading
  
  #### Smallest heading
  

• Bold text:
  To make text bold, surround it with double asterisks (*)

  I am **bold**!
  

• Italic text:
  To make text italic, surround it with single asterisks (*)

  This text is _italic_!
  

• Code:
  Wrap your line with backticks (`) to mark it as code.

  Take a look at this: `println!("hello world");`
  

  Or if you have multiple lines, use a fenced code block:

  ```rs
  fn main() {
      println!("hello world!")
  }
  ```
  

• Links:
  To add links, you can simply paste them in your message. But if you’d like to change the content of the link without changing the actual destination, you can use this syntax:

  [link content](https://www.convinator.org)
  

  You can also add a title to your link, which will be shown when the reader hovers over it:

  [link content](https://www.convinator.org 'Example Title')
  

• Strike through:
  Wrap your text in tildes (~) to put a line through it:

  ~An untrue statement~
  

• Lists:
  There’s three types of lists: ordered, bulleted, and task:

  1. Ordered
  2. list
  3. example
  
  - Bulleted
  - list
  - example
  
  - [x] Task
  - [ ] list
  - [ ] example
  

• Quotes:
  Prefix your text with a greater-than sign (>) to make it quoted.

  > Convinator is pretty cool!