/** * 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, options, globals) { 'use strict'; text = globals.converter._dispatch('encodeCode.before', text, options, globals); // Encode all ampersands; HTML entities are not // entities within a Markdown code span. text = text .replace(/&/g, '&') // Do the angle bracket song and dance: .replace(//g, '>') // Now, escape characters that are magic in Markdown: .replace(/([*_{}\[\]\\=-])/g, showdown.helper.escapeCharactersCallback); text = globals.converter._dispatch('encodeCode.after', text, options, globals); return text; });