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authorAlec Theriault <alec.theriault@gmail.com>2018-10-16 14:59:13 -0700
committerAlec Theriault <alec.theriault@gmail.com>2018-10-16 14:59:13 -0700
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@@ -776,14 +776,14 @@ Special Characters
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The following characters have special meanings in documentation
-comments: ``\\``, ``/``, ``'``, ``\```, ``"``, ``@``, ``<``, ``$``. To insert a
+comments: ``\``, ``/``, ``'``, `````, ``"``, ``@``, ``<``, ``$``, ``#``. To insert a
literal occurrence of one of these special characters, precede it with a
-backslash (``\\``).
+backslash (``\``).
Additionally, the character ``>`` has a special meaning at the beginning
of a line, and the following characters have special meanings at the
beginning of a paragraph: ``*``, ``-``. These characters can also be
-escaped using ``\\``.
+escaped using ``\``.
Furthermore, the character sequence ``>>>`` has a special meaning at the
beginning of a line. To escape it, just prefix the characters in the