In comments - how do I highlight with back-ticks when the last character is a backslash [duplicate]

Question

In comments there's strange behaviour with ending code markup in backslashes. This works just fine here, but not in comments:

First-highlight\-xyzNext-highlight

Instead it overruns as:

First-highlight\-xyzAnother-highlight`

For example:

This should come out as: testing testing\123testing and works just fine here, but in comments it appears as:

Likewise, testing\ works just fine here, but the backslash is ignored in comments and it comes out as just testing.

How do I do this? Or is this a bug?

Answer 1

Here are the rules for inline code in posts and comments.

POSTS: If you want backticks inside an inline code snippet, surround them with any amount of backticks not used in the code. Examples:

• ``this is a `backtick` thing`` renders as this is a `backtick` thing
• ````here are one ` two `` three ``` backticks```` renders as here are one ` two `` three ``` backticks
• Use spaces if backticks are at beginning or end - `` $` `` renders as $`
• `testing testing\`123`testing` renders as testing testing\123testing

COMMENTS: Simply use \ to escape backticks. Limitation: you can't escape backslashes, so you can't have a backslash at the end of an inline code snippet. Also, `test`123`test` doesn't work.

• `this is a \`backtick\` thing` renders as this is a `backtick` thing
• etc.
• `testing testing\ `123 `testing` renders as testing testing\ 123 testing