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Markdown escaping in greppable

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greppable testneeded whateverable
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Description

It's fairly known that the way it escapes things is not perfect, but it does work most of the time.

However, here it seems to be broken for this line.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the linked greppable case and inspect the escaping path for the cited ScintillaGTK.cxx line 573. Done means that this input is escaped correctly without breaking existing greppable behavior; the payload names no source file or test.

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Assessment

Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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