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Yet another matrix client
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[Regression] Cannot escape Markdown sequences #1474

Open Luhav opened 10 months ago

Luhav commented 10 months ago

Describe the problem

Prior to Cinny v3, one could escape a Markdown sequence by placing a backslash before the sequence, preventing it from being rendered as Markdown. This appears to have been removed from Cinny v3. animated GIF of Cinny V3 demonstrating various attempted escapes of Markdown formatting which do not work as intended

Describe the solution you'd like

\ should once again escape Markdown sequences, as in Cinny v2 animated GIF of Cinny V2 demonstrated the above attempted escapes of Markdown formatting, and working as intended

Alternatives considered

Simply toggling the Markdown on/off before each message is not a valid solution for the following reasons:

Additional context

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rail01 commented 9 months ago

This issue is very annoying, currently the only way to escape MD syntax seems to be with inline-code, which isn't ideal when I just want to write something that isn't supposed to be MD but isn't supposed to be code either.