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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by sestep on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:29PM (#45674750)
For anyone else reading this comment who was confused because this seems like the opposite of what you'd expect about Nix: Hacker News ate the asterisks and turned them into italics.
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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by fragmede on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:06PM (#45675141)
use a backslash. \*

(had to use a double backslash to render that correctly)

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by latexr on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:26PM (#45675365)
Or two consecutive asterisks: ** becomes *
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