I have recently found in chat that you cannot put backslashes in backticks without them showing and it disappearing:    Why is this so? If you put another letter in with it though it works as would be expected. So is this a bug or some sort of odd intentional feature?
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`\`    should be rendered as an escaped backslash but it actually ends up displayed as an escaped backtick.
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In MySQL we can create queries with or without the backtick (`) symbol. Example:   SELECT * FROM TEST; SELECT * FROM `TEST`;   Both works fine in mysql-console.  Is there any technical difference between them?  Is there any benefit using (`) over over simple queries?
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The keyboard shortcuts for bold and italics on SO et al is incorrectly implemented on Mac, IMHO.  On Mac, we use the ⌘ key to invoke keyboard shortcuts. However, on SO, I have to remember to use control.   Can we get the ⌘ for keyboard shortcuts implemented please?
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that multiline messages in chat don't support Markdown (except for fixed-width and quote formatting). But if such a message gets starred the Markdown will be rendered after all:    That is probably usually not a big deal, but I thought it's worth documenting (and very occasionally, a multiline message might rely on Markdown not working such that it becomes unreadable when starred).
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I am running Ubuntu 17.04 on a 2015 Macbook Pro. On the keyboard the Tilde~/Backtick&lt;/kbd&gt; key is mapped to&lt;and>`. I have found a few fixes for this, but have found no way to make it permanent.  I have found that the command   echo 0 &gt; sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout   corrects the issue, as does  setxkbmap -option apple:badmap   My issue is getting either of these commands to run inside of a script at startup/login so that I am not having to manually run it every time I want it fixed. I have tried using /etc/rc.local but in Ubuntu 17.04 when trying to enable it with systemctl I get no results. I will take anything that will work. Thanks guys!
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If I enter the following mark-down source:  “*blah*”   into a question or answer, then it works, but in a comment it doesn’t. The asterisks remain literal and don’t turn into italics.
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I hope I'm right in thinking this is the site where you post general computer-related problems...  A problem I have when playing games (since you won't be pressing multiple keys simultaneously anytime else), is that when I press up/left and then another key, it fails to 'register' as if that last key is never pressed. This doesn't happen when I'm pressing any other two arrow keys, e.g. down/left or up/right. The weird thing is that when I'm playing with WASD instead of the arrow keys, i still have this problem! Meaning W+A+another button doesn't work.  If anyone knows what I should, I'd appreciate the help. (My reflexes are fast and I can always circumvent this problem, but it's quite annoying and shouldn't exist to begin with!)
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How does one insert a "\" (backslash) into the text of a LaTeX document? And how does one insert a "~" (tilde)? (If you insert \~, it will give you a tilde as an accent over the following letter.)    I believe \backslash may be used in math formulae, but not into text itself. Lamport's, Kopka's, and Mittelbach's texts have said as much (but no more), and so left me hanging on how to get a backslash into regular text.
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I'm reading shell tutorial today from   In which it mentions:     If a single quote appears within a string to be output, you should not put the whole string within single quotes instead you whould preceed that using a backslash () as follows:   echo 'It\'s Shell Programming'   I tried this on my centos server, it doesn't work, a &gt; prompts out to hint me type more.  I was wondering, since two single quotes transform every special characters into normal characters,  which include escape symbol \, but exclude itself, the ', how should I represent a single single quote 'in a single-quoted phrase?
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I saw this °͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ strange character online. I also noted that:   It needs 26 backspaces to delete but behaves like one character when selecting.   It is drawn vertically covering many rows above.  What is this character and why is it behaving like this ?
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I just posted a comment to someone's answer on SO and accidentally left off the very first backtick, resulting in a really messed up looking comment. Of course I couldn't see the result of that omission until I posted it and by then it was too late to fix it. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
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I tried before to post a shell script that contained a ` character as an answer on Stack Overflow. The parser insisted on treating the backtick as formatting instead of part of code.  How can I include it?
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I want to do something like bzr commit -m "It works!". I can sort of escape the exclamation mark by doing bzr commit -m "It works\!". However, then my commit message includes the backslash. How do I escape the exclamation mark, while still ignoring the backslash?
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Now, my version of TeXworks is 0.4.5r.1280 and I can't have the " character on the keyboard.    I have ``  or '' instead. Why?  And It's the same with Alt+034. I'm very disappointed with that.
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When I post a question and want to add a new line, I have to press Return two times, or else the next text will appear on the same line.  Is this really supposed to behave this way? If so, why?
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How are people showing keyboard &quot;glyphs&quot; on Super User? I looked at the Markdown help page and it didn't show anything regarding this. Here is  (question has been deleted since this was asked, so an archive link is provided instead):
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I stumbled upon an example, which needed to be compiled with the additional option --shell-escape. Using this option it worked just fine, but I'm curious:     Why or when is this option needed and what does it actually do?