showdown/src/subParsers/encodeCode.js

/**
 * Created by Estevao on 11-01-2015.
 */

/**
 * Encode/escape certain characters inside Markdown code runs.
 * The point is that in code, these characters are literals,
 * and lose their special Markdown meanings.
 */
showdown.subParser('encodeCode', function (text) {
    'use strict';

    // Encode all ampersands; HTML entities are not
    // entities within a Markdown code span.
    text = text.replace(/&/g, '&');

    // Do the angle bracket song and dance:
    text = text.replace(/</g, '&lt;');
    text = text.replace(/>/g, '&gt;');

    // Now, escape characters that are magic in Markdown:
    text = showdown.helper.escapeCharacters(text, '*_{}[]\\', false);

    // jj the line above breaks this:
    //---
    //* Item
    //   1. Subitem
    //            special char: *
    // ---

    return text;

});