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add (markdown) emphasis escaping
This feature adds the possibility of escaping italic on markdown
Before the only way to write a word with underscore (e.g. SYS_ADMIN) was placing a space after the underscore, now it's possible to escape it with a backslash so it won't trigger the italic feature.
Change
The change consist on combining the actual negative look-ahead for a space with a negative look-behind for a backslash
Sadly, we cannot use negative look behind yet as that feature is still too newly added to Safari.
Actually, hold that thought, perhaps it's time to change this policy: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/3890
@joshgoebel great so if my change can be added that would be great to me because I have it patched in one of my projects and is not the best way to have it
No lookbehind for now as it would be a breaking change... why not just have a single (separate) rule that matches \* but then chooses not to highlight it? Would that hurt anything else?