#5540 backslash markdown escaping of opening angle bracket only partly works
Originally created by: vampire0
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/markdown_syntax/#md_ex_escapes says that you can escape any character that has a special meaning for Markdown with a backslash which will then vanish on rendering. This is only partly true for the opening angle bracket <. If you write <foo@bar.baz> it gets converted to a mailto: link to foo@bar.baz. IF you write \<foo@bar.baz> it gets rendered as \<foo@bar.baz>. So the escaping halfway works, the transformation to a mailto: link is not done, but the backslash is not removed. You have to write <foo@bar.baz> to correctly produce the intended <foo@bar.baz>.