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Please give us Markdown in Slack already. How can that be much more "difficult" compared to Slack's own formatting?

At least give me the possibility to temporarily disable formatting, e.g. to not make bold when using asterisks. No, using inline code formatting is not a viable option. I simply want to have asterisks shown as normal text. I'm fine with escaping with e.g. backslashes. That's kinda normal.

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    5y
    It is markdown though. Just not the Github or stackoverflow flavor.
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    5y
    @Codex404 Well, sort of... it's a kind of similarish variant of Markdown, but with its own syntax. E.g. how you set text on links are quite different. What gets bold is different too.

    But indeed, I can live with the formatting method chosen, but I still miss being able to disable some formatting. That's definitely not supported.
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    5y
    Wrapping text in ''' ''' displays it as is
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    5y
    @git-out Yes, but it also destroys all formatting. And applies a monospace format to the text. So no, it's not a solution.

    No idea if devRant conforms to my wishes... so let's try; Sometimes I want to have text with asterisks around them. *nods* But without missing the ability to have formatting where needed elsewhere.

    But that's apparently too much to ask for, when it comes to Slack.
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