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Markdown bold toggle interacts in a flawed way with JavaScript's exponentiation operator #564

Open yurivish opened 1 year ago

yurivish commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug Toggling bold on interpolated code with a ** turns syntactically correct JavaScript into a syntax error

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: https://observablehq.com/d/bbcf48b517d7a623

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  1. highlight then press cmd+b or click the bold B button image

  2. evaluating the cell now shows a syntax error image

Expected behavior **{2**m}**

Desktop (please complete the following information): Chrome 112, macOS, laptop