Future Request: Format the escape character

[Yarakashi-Kikohshi]

Format the escape character

Markdown has some escape characters.

It's not a complete list, but it looks like this:

* _ \ ` # + - | { } [ ] ( )

I need to escape these when writing the page title in Markdown.
Escaping these manually is very cumbersome and should be formatted when copying.

Some considerations

It may be necessary to note that [ ~ ] becomes \[ ~ \] when escaped, and MathJax may recognize it as a formula in some cases.
It may be useful to leave the escape character to the user.

Additional request

This is a rare case so I'm not sure if the extension should support it, but some titles contain HTML tags.

e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/article

Copy result:

[<article>: The Article Contents element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/article)

In this case, the HTML tag needs to be escaped with ` as inline-code.
I'm very happy if this is also formatted.

It's very useful extension, thank you.

[crosstyan]

I'll consider this as edge case, although this can be solved like how we prevent XSS attack -- just sanitize/purify the title (convert these special character to HTML character codes)

I'll try to implement this feature in my fork if I have time.

See also:

• Entity - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms | MDN
• How do I escape the hash sign (#) if I want to use it in the section title? - Meta Stack Exchange