From 8cc8a69f75142ab74a7a64e928ae56fc67be674b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin MacMartin <prurigro@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:57:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Don't interpret escaped _ chars in italics as the end of
 syntax match

---
 syntax/markdown.vim | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/syntax/markdown.vim b/syntax/markdown.vim
index e36d083..70f7a0d 100644
--- a/syntax/markdown.vim
+++ b/syntax/markdown.vim
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ syn sync linebreaks=1
 
 "additions to HTML groups
 syn region htmlItalic start="\\\@<!\*\S\@=" end="\S\@<=\\\@<!\*" keepend oneline
-syn region htmlItalic start="\(^\|\s\)\@<=_\|\\\@<!_\([^_]\+\s\)\@=" end="\S\@<=_\|_\S\@=" keepend oneline
+syn region htmlItalic start="\(^\|\s\)\@<=_\|\\\@<!_\([^_]\+\s\)\@=" end="\S\@<=[^\\]_\|[^\\]_\S\@=" keepend oneline
 syn region htmlBold start="\S\@<=\*\*\|\*\*\S\@=" end="\S\@<=\*\*\|\*\*\S\@=" keepend oneline
 syn region htmlBold start="\S\@<=__\|__\S\@=" end="\S\@<=__\|__\S\@=" keepend oneline
 syn region htmlBoldItalic start="\S\@<=\*\*\*\|\*\*\*\S\@=" end="\S\@<=\*\*\*\|\*\*\*\S\@=" keepend oneline
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