Worse than that -- let's say you start typing in a code fragment inside backticks, but your code fragment includes a constant variable name like MY_COOL_VARIABL

Worse than that -- let's say you start typing in a code fragment inside backticks, but your code fragment includes a constant variable name like MY_COOL_VARIABLE. Because Slack doesn't evaluate the backticks until you add the closing backtick, the WYSIWYG editor turns MY_COOL_VARIABLE into MYCOOLVARIABLE, converting the "COOL" in the middle in italics... and then applies the monospaced styling _on top_ of the italics, so you have a really bizzarre output. Oh, and you can't easily get the underscores back -- you'll need to retype the variable name.