Bug report: Backslash not kept after saving

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  yongweiwu · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 7:22 am

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  I’ve found that a backslash needs to be escaped in the code section by doubling it. That is OK. The problem is that the double backslash will become a single backslash after saving. So whenever I edit my posts, I need to:

  • Either edit my saved copy and copy it to the edit box
  • Or remember to re-double my backslashes in code

  This is apparently a bug in the system, isn’t it?

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 9:12 am

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  Marked for Staff.

  Can you give us a link to a post where you’ve had to do the above?

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  yongweiwu · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 12:55 pm

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  OK. This post http://yongweiwu.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/y-combinator-and-cplusplus/ has the problem.

  In the source code I originally typed (two backslashes; not sure whether it will show up correctly):

  `
  sqr = \ x -> x * x
  `

  If I edit the page, I can only see one backslash in the source code:

  `
  sqr = x -> x * x
  `

  Previewing the page then will then only show:

  `
  sqr = x -> x * x
  `

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  yongweiwu · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 12:57 pm

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  Try again to fix the format problem. This post http://yongweiwu.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/y-combinator-and-cplusplus/ has the problem.

  In the source code I originally typed (two backslashes; not sure whether it will show up correctly):

  sqr = \ x -> x * x

  If I edit the page, I can only see one backslash in the source code:

  sqr = x -> x * x

  Previewing the page then will then only show:

  sqr = x -> x * x

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  yongweiwu · Member · Dec 28, 2014 at 9:06 am

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  Interestingly for the new blog I am writing, double-backslash is not required in my first code block, but is required for later code blocks. How confusing it is!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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  Thanks for the report! Can you try using the code tags like this?

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

  You’ll need to try this within the Text Editor. Let me know if that makes a difference (seemed to on my side)! More on that code here:

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  yongweiwu · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 4:41 am

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  I did not expect the code tag to behave differently from the triple-backtick, but it does seem to be more predictable. Thanks!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  No problem at all! Let us know if you need anything else.