Character < is being escaped

[michael-lazar]

Character < is being escaped

[michael-lazar]

It's working fine for me 😦

Is it every < symbol or just this one? What versions of python / PRAW are you running?

[fedemp]

It seems to happen when the < is not marked as code. Not sure if you can open a specific post but if you can, check this two:

http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2x83tq/navigation_tips/ works fine cause it's written as

`<CR>`

in the post body.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/20c0gd/vimdispatch_i_should_have_used_this_years_ago/cg1zsea is the one that is shown in the screen capture.

[michael-lazar]

I checked into this, it looks like a typo within reddit's API!

Here's the call that we're making, along with the response:

http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/20c0gd/vimdispatch_i_should_have_used_this_years_ago/cg1zsea.json?sort=hot

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The relevant part of the response:

I want and then just set 'autocmd bufwritepost * :Dispatch<CR>\n\n

So you can see that the less than symbol is not properly escaped in the response object (< instead of <). I don't see anything that we can do about this on the client end.