# Escaped tildes in the new rich text editor are buggy

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**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** composer\
**Created:** [July 31, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/escaped-tildes-in-the-new-rich-text-editor-are-buggy/376788 "2025-07-31T22:06:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/escaped-tildes-in-the-new-rich-text-editor-are-buggy/376788/1 "2025-07-31T22:06:41Z")

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When writing a paragraph that contains escaped tildes, typing subsequent tildes does not work as expected. Specifically, if I have some text that `uses a ` (tilde)` like this, then pressing the ` key again later in the same paragraph causes the inline code span to toggle about.

The escaped ` is also problematic.

Copy-paste the following into the rich text editor to replicate it:

```md
Specifically, if I have some text that `` uses a ` (tilde) `` like this,
then pressing the <kbd>\`</kbd> key again later in the same paragraph
causes the inline code span to toggle about.

The escaped \` is also problematic.

```

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