Escaping hashtag

Stream: Zulip meta

[Kenny Lau]

#12345 gives you a link, but \#12345 leaves the backslash visible.

[Kenny Lau]

so there is no way to produce the plain text #12345 it seems?

[Julian Berman]

#​12345 (b​u​t I c​h​e​a​t​e​d)

[Aaron Liu]

zero width space to the rescue

[Edward van de Meent]

it feels to me like it might be related to #Zulip meta > escaping backtics in one-line code block ?

[Edward van de Meent]

(another escaping bug/lack of feature)

[Mario Carneiro]

note that there is nothing special about the hash here, we just conventionally use hashes in our linkifiers. Zulip is happy to let you define plain words as linkifiers