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A better workaround is to use ''# to indicate comments. This avoids need to worry about escaping quotes in the comment itself and actually colors the text like a comment rather than a string literal.
– Joel Coehoorn
Commented May 18, 2010 at 16:15
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@JoelCoehoorn — This is ugly.
– TheMaskedCucumber
Commented Jun 21, 2014 at 14:28
@MarkJ — You degrade other people’s code to make the buggy syntax highlighter work ??
– TheMaskedCucumber
Commented Jun 21, 2014 at 14:30
@JoelCoehoorn — Altering the code to circumvent the bugs of the syntax highlighter. I had never seen that.
– TheMaskedCucumber
Commented Jun 21, 2014 at 14:31

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)
<https://example.com>
[example](https://example.com)
<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

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