fix: allow escaping of colons

Previously, you couldn't escape colons (as they were semi-magic markdown characters). Colons (:) can now be backslash escaped.
showdownjs · Feb 1, 2022 · 25c4420 · 25c4420
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diff --git a/src/subParsers/encodeBackslashEscapes.js b/src/subParsers/encodeBackslashEscapes.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ showdown.subParser('encodeBackslashEscapes', function (text, options, globals) {
   text = globals.converter._dispatch('encodeBackslashEscapes.before', text, options, globals);
 
   text = text.replace(/\\(\\)/g, showdown.helper.escapeCharactersCallback);
-  text = text.replace(/\\([`*_{}\[\]()>#+.!~=|-])/g, showdown.helper.escapeCharactersCallback);
+  text = text.replace(/\\([`*_{}\[\]()>#+.!~=|:-])/g, showdown.helper.escapeCharactersCallback);
 
   text = globals.converter._dispatch('encodeBackslashEscapes.after', text, options, globals);
   return text;

diff --git a/test/issues/#510.specific-string-gets-removed-from-text.html b/test/issues/#510.specific-string-gets-removed-from-text.html
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<p>[^1]:a</p>
+<p>[^1]:a</p>
diff --git a/test/issues/#510.specific-string-gets-removed-from-text.md b/test/issues/#510.specific-string-gets-removed-from-text.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+\[^1]:a
+
+[^1]\:a