From  question on SU;  Notice the u in chromium isn't italic, as it should be, given the situation. However, you can't do something like that (although the prettify box says you can), so do we need something like  *Ch*romi[blank]*u*[blank]m   to allow such a string to be posted?
There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere. The short story From now on, intra-word emphasis is possible in our Markdown version. That means you can now write  The &quot;V&quot; is for Model**View**Controller. That's un*fricking*believable.  and it renders like this:  The &quot;V&quot; is for ModelViewController. That's unfrickingbelievable.  This only works for asterisks, not for underscores. It works in posts and comments. The reasons There are two big reasons for this. For one thing, this is more or less the behavior of , which we eventually . &quot;More or less&quot; because CommonMark's emphasis behavior is still in flux, and supports a few things that we don't support yet, but at least with this change we're closer. The other reason is languages that don't even have the concept of &quot;words separated by spaces&quot;. See  and  for two examples. This change allow posts in those languages to emphasize words without having to resort to HTML tags. To use an example from the first linked post,  **北京**和**上海**是直辖市。   now renders like this:  北京和上海是直辖市。  Possible issues In the 99% cases, this should only make things better; I've only found very few posts where this change causes unintended bolding/italicizing. And even in those cases, note that the rendered versions of questions and answers are not re-rendered until a post is edited, so this will not affect anything in posts retroactively. Unlike posts, comments are rendered , so this immediately applies to all comments. In most cases this doesn't change anything or actually fixes things. Should you discover a rare case where this breaks an important comment badly, we can always edit it to fix. There's one side effect that I'd like to mention: If you find a great quicksort implementation on GitHub that has a bug that causes a crash when sorting Windows versions, and the author doesn't want to fix it, you may be inclined to say  f**k this s**t   (i.e., &quot;fork this sort&quot;). With intraword emphasis, this would however look like this:  fk this st  So you would have to escape the asterisks (one of them would actually be enough). I'm not worried about this case too much, since if you must put censor-worthy words into a post, you might as well have to jump through a little hoop. Some details This being Meta, there are probably lots of people interested in a more detailed description of the new behavior (don't feel bad if you're not one of them; just skip this section). Here are the major rules regarding intraword-emphasis:  As mentioned, it only applies to asterisks, not underscores. Underscores  this restriction was in place at all; asterisks are much less of a problem.  If a single or double asterisk is supposed to be interpreted as intra-word emphasis, it cannot have punctuation on one side; it actually must be inside a word. An example of an edge case this solves is  It's a web*-based solution. *see Wikipedia for a definition of &quot;web&quot;  where the asterisks after &quot;web&quot; could cause unintended italicizing if there was a second asterisk in the same paragraph somewhere.  For italics, the &quot;inside a word&quot; part of rule 2 is even a bit stricter. For bolding, any word or digit character is allowed; for italics, digits don't work either. That's because the asterisk is often used as a multiplication symbol, so  The game worked in 320200 and 640480 resolution.  wouldn't look right without this restriction.  A minor addition that I made that's only tangentially related to intra-word emphasis is that a sequence of more than three underscores or more than three asterisks will no longer take part in any emphasis. This shouldn't really cause any problems, but fixes some (e.g. the underline in the second blockquote in , while not really visible, is a weird combination of bold and italic underscore characters; after this change, it would just be (more) underscore characters). This behavior also matches CommonMark.
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When you earn one tag badge, and then don't click "Track the next one" in the tag badge progress tracking box for a while, and then earn a second tag badge, that box continues to show "Congratulations, you earned [the same badge as before]", rather than updating to show that you've actually earned another tag badge since then.  For instance, right now  looks like this:    Even though I  a few weeks ago and then  yesterday, my profile hasn't updated to show the new achievement.  I also didn't get the "cipher" tag badge until after the 3am watershed, even though tag badges usually appear as soon as I visit my profile after earning them (for instance, I earned the "tags" tag badge on meta.SFF.SE today the very instant I clicked on my own profile there after having become eligible for the badge). 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I tried to choose an application through Firefox's settings and through the pop-up, but I don't know the path.  As you can see by my screen shot for the pop-up I chose the wrong one as that doesn't work.  What is the correct path I need to select the correct file?  EDIT - I added a fourth screen shot.  I don't have it in that location.  This is what I have.  My view is in ABC order, and it's showing hidden files. I know that I can update a snap package using  sudo snap refresh &lt;package&gt;   But is there a way to update all snaps, like   sudo apt dist-upgrade Transit Visa for Thailand Im an Indian citizen. Do I need a transit visa in Thailand while going to Angkor Wat from Kolkata (India), and can I stay in Thailand for two days on this transit visa? So I have Destiny on PS3. If I were to buy the Legendary Edition (Containing House of Wolves and Dark Below Expansion) will I be able to play with my characters from my original Destiny disc? May sound silly, but I need confirmation. 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The following does not work:  some_command 1&gt; output_log_1 output_log_2 2&gt;&amp;1 "Friendly" terminal color names in shell scripts? I'm aware of libraries in languages such as Ruby and Javascript to make colorizing your terminal scripts easier by using color names like "red".  But is there something like this for shell scripts in Bash, or Ksh, or whatever? What's going on here? I've installed the  on Ubuntu 17.10. Everything was cool, and as I was trying to hone and tweak the look of my desktop, at some point the shortcuts bar (dock?) on the left is duplicated.  (Click image to enlarge) The default, which normally disappears with Dash to Dock, is there underneath the one that usually shows up when I install Dash to Dock. Why? I've tried to go through the options for Dash to Dock, the GNOME Tweak Tool, and the regular Ubuntu settings, but I can't figure it out. I have a  to which I'd like to add JPEG and PNG images that I generate on the fly.  All the examples I've seen so far in the , specially in the  use ImageIcons.  I'm generating these images as byte arrays, and they are usually larger than the common icon they use in the examples, at 640x480.   Is there any (performance or other) problem in using the ImageIcon class to display an image that size in a JPanel? What's the usual way of doing it? How to add an image to a JPanel without using the ImageIcon class?   Edit: A more careful examination of the tutorials and the API shows that you cannot add an ImageIcon directly to a JPanel. Instead, they achieve the same effect by setting the image as an icon of a JLabel. This just doesn't feel right... On the  blog post, nearly all the images are broken. I assume this is because they are all hosted on stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/ rather than zgab33vy595fw5zq-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/, and they got destroyed in the removal of Blog Overflow. 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