[Xastir-dev] How to escape in Github

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 03:22:15PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> The right thing to do here was probably just change the entire block to
> a code block rather than inline text.  That ignores markdown and just quotes
> it exactly.
> 
> It was a direct cut and paste from email.
> 
> I have gone back to #66 and re-edited it to remove the "\# " and just put
> the whole thing into a code-quoted block.

Unfortunately, once the "#1" thing gets done, Github automatically puts a
notation on issue #1 (or PR #1 or whatever #1 is) that it was referenced from
elsewhere.  There is no way to delete these references after the fact.  
There is an open request for that sort of thing on github:

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1235

There may be a way to do it through the API, but it's not clear that anyone
has actually tried it.


Previewing comments before clicking the "Comment" button would help to avoid
doing this before the confusing references are created, but there's nothing
to be done after the fact, it seems.

This is bound to happen again, because the information that was pasted in 
was relevant, and editing every line of it isn't the rational way to deal.
Gonna have to be careful in the future to remember to block-quote or code-quote
such things.

> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 01:30:14PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > We had one Github issue where we had a series of numbers in a comment (
> > https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/66#issuecomment-486514563 ) like:
> > 
> > #1 blah
> > #2 blah blah
> > #3 blah blah blah
> > 
> > Those numbers got auto-linked to other things in Github because of the
> > hash/number format used. I fixed it with a backslash before plus a space
> > after the hash mark to get them to unlink. I edited the comment on Github
> > to do this fix.
> > 
> > Several methods of escaping such sequences are listed here:
> > 
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20532546/escape-pound-or-number-sign-in-github-issue-tracker
> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM  
> 
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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