No way to escape backticks

LinuxLefty · January 19, 2017, 8:02pm

Steps to reproduce

I wanted the following Bash code in code blocks:

me=`whoami`

I tried the following:

`me=`whoami` `

```x=`whoami` ```

`me=\`whoami\` `

Expected result

I expected to see the code block:

me=`whoami`

Actual result

Instead of the expected result, what happened?

Screenshot:

Environment

OS: Linux
Browser: Firefox

Joao_Campos · February 14, 2017, 4:05pm

Also reproducible on Mac/Google Chrome.

Erica · February 16, 2017, 1:03pm

Confirmed; there’s no way to escape with Markdown right now on Dynalist.

Honestly I’m not sure if we’re going to add escaping or just wait for WYSIWYG, since WYSIWYG is going to make the entire current formatting system obsolete.

@Shida, how much work would this be? What do you think?

Shida · February 16, 2017, 1:44pm

Not sure, we can try to patch it this time, but I think WYSIWYG might take some time. It’ll depend on how much this is needed ATM.

Erica · February 16, 2017, 2:26pm

I don’t think it’s that urgent, but it would be nice to have if it’s low hanging fruit.

Your thoughts, @LinuxLefty?

Leonardo_Muzkiz_Ramo · May 13, 2017, 1:56am

cant wait to WYSIWYG

Erica · June 7, 2017, 6:54pm

Update: you can use \ to escape things now, cheers! Available in latest version on web, other platforms will follow soon.

Lukas · September 29, 2017, 6:01am

Does this work for anyone?
Typing

`\``

gives me
\`
instead of

Erica · September 29, 2017, 7:20pm

Yeah, that’s the case. The backspace is contained between the two backticks.

Did you expect something different?

Lukas · September 29, 2017, 8:56pm

I expected the backslash to escape the following backtick, so the rendered code block would just show a single backtick. In my example above, nothing is escaped (as shown in the second code line): Only the backslash is inside the code block, followed by a single plain text backtick.

Erica · October 3, 2017, 12:10am

+@Shida could you take a look at this escape character issue?

Shida · October 3, 2017, 4:54am

Will take a look.

Jayden_Navarro · March 28, 2020, 1:09am

Just hit this issue today:

`log(\`test\`)`

Expected it to render as:

log(`test`)

Instead got:

log(\test`)`

However, I got around the issue with triple backticks, which rendered it as expected:

```log(`test`)```

It even included nice syntax highlighting

So it’s not really an issue as there’s a solid workaround, but out of curiosity was a fix for escaping a single backtick investigated?

Shida · March 28, 2020, 2:07am

Weird this was here since '17… and still not fixed! I will track it this time and make sure it’s fixed soon.

Shida · April 2, 2020, 6:09pm

Should be fixed in latest update.

Jayden_Navarro · April 2, 2020, 7:58pm

@shida It seems this change has caused a regression in code block (triple backticks).

For example:

```foo `bar` baz```

Previously correctly rendered as:

foo `bar` baz

Now renders as:

foo bar baz

Escaping them doesn’t help either:

```foo \`bar\` baz```

Renders as:

foo \bar\ baz

Jayden_Navarro · May 9, 2020, 3:44am

Can confirm this regression is now fixed.