More oddities.

MotoX80 31,561 Reputation points
2023-01-13T01:03:47.7533333+00:00

Some more things that I've found.

In the Windows environment, there is something that is known as a UNC path. This consists of backslash+backslash+servername+sharename. Like this.

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This new site converts backslash+backslash to a single backslash.

This is plain text: \test

This is blockquote: \test 

This is code block:  \\test

You need to fix that so that users do not get confused when we reply to a question and need to specify a UNC path.

I had replied to a question and ran into the backslash+backslash issue and I wanted to just delete my reply until I could figure out how to correctly reply. I did not find a way to just delete my answer.

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Am I just confused and missed something obvious?

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  1. Richard Hay 1,231 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-01-27T19:36:55.3033333+00:00

    @MotoX80

    The team has just provided feedback on this bug, and it is by design relating to escaping characters.

    Here is the explainer link they provided - https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#escaping-characters

    • In markdown mode: a backslash will escape the next character per the guidelines above
    • In rich text mode: a backslash does not escape

    If it was escaping in rich text mode that would be an issue, but per my testing it doesn't seem to be. You can add \ in rich text without any issue.

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