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    "So I suggest allowing limited Markdown in titles (e.g. as in comments?)" - Agreed
    – jjnguy
    Commented Oct 28, 2010 at 15:52
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    Now I'm wondering if I can add em-dash as an alias for the decrement operator in C...
    – user27414
    Commented Oct 28, 2010 at 15:55
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    Probably worth noting that a search for the title as-written still finds the question. The double-dash is converted to an em-dash during rendering, just as the double-ampersand is converted to && - it affects the final display (and possibly Google indexing) but not the internal title.
    – Shog9
    Commented Oct 28, 2010 at 21:52
  • +1 because I wanted to italicize a metasyntactic variable on English.SE in a title... and status-declined, schmatus-declined: even gods can change their minds, so there's hope ;-)
    – Jürgen A. Erhard
    Commented Feb 8, 2011 at 20:57
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    “Slightly” misleading ? It is totally wrong ! Give that garbage to a C++ compiler, you will see.
    – TheMaskedCucumber
    Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 20:26
  • How about providing an escape way ?
    – TheMaskedCucumber
    Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 20:29
  • The question title should be "-- -> —, yes or no?"
    – Paul Draper
    Commented Sep 9, 2015 at 17:00
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    … for those of us keeping track: More than eight years and ~ 10 duplicate bug reports later, this is still not fixed.
    – Konrad Rudolph
    Commented Jan 14, 2019 at 16:55
  • 11 years later: It's fixed now.
    – Mendhak
    Commented Sep 1, 2021 at 20:19