Escaping error in code highlight?

Question

I've just wrote C:\ in a comment and it wouldn't work. I had to write C:\ (with a trailing space).

Am I too drunk, or is it a real bug?

Here on the question it seems to be working.

Answer 1

Yeah, comment markdown and escaping is... weird. I've been shying aways from changing this, since it's been like this forever, so it may break a ton of old comments. On the plus side, backslash escaping of backticks in code spans only happens in one-backtick spans*. But since these days, comment Markdown supports Markdown's multi-backtick codespans, you can use that for achieving what you want:

There's something to be found in ``C:\``

_{^{*That is a weird sentence.}}