Bug in code display

[VRonin]

Hi everyone, I think there is a bug in how code is rendered in the main forum when using escape chars.

This is what I typed:

The preview renders correctly

But the slashes before the square brackets disappear in the final rendering

single line:

QRegularExpression("\[(.+)\]");

block quote

QRegularExpression("\[(.+)\]");

Can you confirm the bug?

My setup: Win7, Firefox 64.0

[kshegunov]

Confirmed. Escaping is rather iffy to say the least. Use C-slashes to escape the backslash if needed as a workaround.
E.g:
`\\\[Text\\\]` produces \\[Text\\]

[VRonin]

ping @ollipuu as I think this was introduced by the recent update.

[ollipuu]

Hmm... I think this is how it's been since beginning as we haven't made any changes to Markdown parsing. NodeBB uses package nodebb-plugin-markdown which uses very popular package markdown-it, which renders the provided example similarly: QRegularExpression example

So for now the workaround is to escape the backslashes, like @kshegunov suggested.