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I agree with you on that. What about * for bold, / for italic and _ for underline?

• ysavir 2y ago
  / is too commonly used, such as when making a list of replacements/alternatives/synonyms. It works fine when it's just the text as written, but if it was parsing and turned that list to replacementsalternativessynonyms, it would only be getting in the way.
  • adrian_b 2y ago
    True. Perhaps //italic text// would be acceptable.
    • account42 2y ago
      // is common in URIs.
  • bmacho 2y ago
    You shouldn't parse '/' in foo/bar/baz or in foo / bar / baz. If people want to make foo or foo bar italic, they write /foo/ and /foo bar/.