Bug: Backslash removed in front of symbols
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Description
Hello,
the keybase client doesn't show backslashes in front of symbols, e.g.:
When replying to the message, they're shown again.
We realized this when chatting about code snippets which had disappearing backlashes that should escape those symbols. This makes keybase practically unusable to copy&paste code as it's silently changed and sometimes this is not even be obvious if it doesn't break the syntax, so the code still runs, but is broken.
It's ok inside the backtick code-tags but they're not necessarily used for single lines of code.
So it would be better to handle backslashes like every other chat client and show them as they are.
(Tested on Linux and ios)
Regards
Arnim
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No source file or test is identified. First reproduce the disappearing backslashes in a Keybase chat on Linux or iOS, comparing ordinary messages with replies and backtick code tags. Done means backslashes before symbols remain visible and copyable outside code tags.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, ios, linux
- Domain
- desktop-dev, frontend, mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100