src/subParsers/makehtml/encodeCode.js
/**
* Encode/escape certain characters inside Markdown code runs.
* The point is that in code, these characters are literals,
* and lose their special Markdown meanings.
*/
showdown.subParser('makehtml.encodeCode', function (text, options, globals) {
'use strict';
text = globals.converter._dispatch('makehtml.encodeCode.before', text, options, globals).getText();
// Encode all ampersands; HTML entities are not
// entities within a Markdown code span.
text = text
.replace(/&/g, '&')
// Do the angle bracket song and dance:
.replace(/</g, '<')
.replace(/>/g, '>')
// Now, escape characters that are magic in Markdown:
.replace(/([*_{}\[\]\\=~-])/g, showdown.helper.escapeCharactersCallback);
text = globals.converter._dispatch('makehtml.encodeCode.after', text, options, globals).getText();
return text;
});