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Escaping a backtick with a backslash in backtick-delimited inline code seems to be broken

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In the comments, you can use `\`` to escape a (code formatted) backtick, like so: resulting in However, in question (and answer) posts, it doesn't work. It ends up looking like three backticks: ```. To get what you want you have to use <code>...</code> , or least that is how I worked around the issue: <code>`</code> which gives: `

In the comments, you can use

`\``

to escape a (code formatted) backtick, like so:

resulting in

However, in question (and answer) posts, it doesn't work. It ends up looking like three backticks: ```.

To get what you want you have to use <code>...</code>, or least that is how I worked around the issue:

<code>`</code>

which gives: `

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