Double underscore converts to italic font

[albinahlback]

On Linux, when writing two underscores for subscripts, it converts the text in between to italics and also removes the underscores. This is really hard to work with.

Example: a_1 y = z x_1 turns to a<1 y = z x>1 where <·> means it is written in italic, which also removes the support for displaying math.

Is it possible to override Slack on this?

[thisiscam]

I can look into this.
But to clarify, you meant that this occurs during typing ?

[albinahlback]

I can look into this.
But to clarify, you meant that this occurs during typing ?

Correct.

[thisiscam]

I looked into this a bit, and seems like Mac has a different behavior compared to what you described in Linux.
I can try with a Linux machine and see if I can reproduce.

In the mean time, can you try Preferences -> Advanced -> turn on "Format message with Markup"? This seems to turn off the auto formatting entirely, and (always) assume that you are writing markup.
Does this satisfies your need?

[albinahlback]

Yes, it does! Thank you!