slack, please let go of my underscores

Couple different workarounds to force slack to treat certain characters as literal instead of formatting codes

For the current WYSIWYG editor, hit Ctrl+Z immediately after conversion happened

and,

To escape a special character, f.e. * or @, type the following characters right before the character that we want to escape:
Keep pressed:

Press and release, one after the other, the following characters:
u a d

Release:

For a moment, we will see, underlined: uAD which will soon become invisible.
Now you can type the special character.

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/86557/how-do-i-escape-formatting-characters-in-slack

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