escaping backtics in one-line code block

Stream: Zulip meta

[Edward van de Meent]

it has occurred on multiple occasions that i'd like to have a backtick ` in a code block. However, getting a single backtick to display correctly in a code block seems nigh impossible, as there seems to be no way to "escape" it... in particular, the automatic insertion of backticks by selecting the text and pressing the "Code" button in the interface does commonly not display as intended...

[Edward van de Meent]

in particular, it looks like we can use backslash to escape backtics but the backslash is displayed?

[Edward van de Meent]

\` example `

[Edward van de Meent]

example

[Edward van de Meent]

more \ example ` <- seems to render bad?

[Edward van de Meent]

``` <- does not render as a single backtick in a code block

[Edward van de Meent]

`\`` <- also does not render as a single backtick in a code block

[Eric Wieser]

`

[Edward van de Meent]

note that you are forced to have spaces somewhere around the backtick to have the backtick in the codeblock

[Kevin Buzzard]

yeah I always feel a bit funny telling people "start your code with a line like this: ``` " whereas I actually mean "...with a line like this but without the spaces"

[Julian Berman]

Isn't this behavior just "normal" for markdown?

[Julian Berman]

Ah sorry I misread, the point is specifically that there's no way to render it without the spaces, and that's not normal, I understand now -- and <code>`</code> doesn't work either for that given no markdown HTML tag rendering.