'_word' becomes '\_word' in markdown (.md) files

[cristianvasquez]

Summary

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I'm trying prettier-vscode to pretty-format markdown.

it does a good job, however, when a word starts with _, then it becomes escaped, and it's not pretty anymore

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2. This is step 2. All steps should start with '1.'

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Prettier Log Output

LOG GOES HERE. DO NOT USE A SCREENSHOT, COPY AND PASTE THE TEXT

[ntotten]

This is an issue or feature request for the Prettier library itself rather than the VS Code extension for prettier. Please open an issue at https://github.com/prettier/prettier.

https://prettier.io/playground/#N4Igxg9gdgLgprEAuEB9A7hATgExAGhAgAcYBLaAZ2VAEMssJ0AFehalWgG3VoE9qhAEZZaYANZwYAZVoBbOABkyUOMgBm3SnGGiJU6cTEqA5shhYArjpBw5QuDhyPFtKCcu0TcAGLY5tDDk7sggtJYwEAQgABYwclwA6jFk8JRGYHDS7KlkAG6pfKFglIIgKtpYMMyiJgEaWjYAVpQAHtKmXHAAipYQ8A1c2oRGWJWhAVjiOExQ0cRYKjCJZDgwMcgAHAAMI4zaiaLEoQtwlXlqhACOffA1JBxhlAC0qo6O0VhwN2RfNV71JCaIY2bRyMjmKygzo9W5qIGNQgwWhCFZrDZIABMSNEZC4pgAwhA5IDbJQAKzRSzaAAqKI4wOGIDy1gAklBnLBpGBFqQAIIc6QwPhdQbaAC+4qAA

[cristianvasquez]

Apparently, there is already an open issue https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/12965