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title: "Facebook Messages underscores"
date: 2018-06-04 01:28:00 +0100
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Recently, Facebook Messages implemented a feature which would automatically
change text surrounded by \_underscores\_ into italics.

This is great, until you need to type code. Then a syntactically
insignificant space would change how your code looks.


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