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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3933 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Okay, Hubski, talk me out of $2k worth of Sinology and WD Reds.

mk, forwardslash - new markup hates plus signs. Sees them as formatting characters no matter what you do.





forwardslash  ·  3932 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You should be able to escape formatting symbols like + with a backslash (i.e. \+).

It does look like there is a bug when editing, though, at it doesn't show the backslash you use to escape.

kleinbl00  ·  3932 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How would that work with URLs? 'cuz the above initially had a "+" instead of "plus" and the Synology URL had a plus in it.

forwardslash  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So +'s should be fine now by themselves in urls, such as this one. Anything outside of that and you'll have to use \'s to escape them.

Complexity  ·  3932 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While they're at it, it hates ~ 's as well, if they're used to indicate approximation.

When split across ~2 lines.

Edit: Ok, escaping with backslash works, but the backslash disappears when subsequently edited as forwardslash noted.