Removing escaping characters in markdown generation.

[Jessica0813]

Hey everyone,

I am having an issue with showdown.

function decodeHtmlEntities(text: string): string {
  textArea.innerHTML = text;
  return textArea.value;
}

export function getText(editor: Editor): string {
  let html = editor?.getHTML();
  console.log('HTML before conversion:', html);
  if (html) {
    const converter = new showdown.Converter();
    let _text = converter.makeMarkdown(html);
    console.log('Markdown after conversion:', _text);
    _text = decodeHtmlEntities(_text);
    console.log('Text after decoding HTML entities:', _text);
    // need to check for @<span data-type="mention" data-id="62fbac0c1fcd4f036e1679b7" data-label="Ben">Ben</span>
    // and replace with <@62fbac0c1fcd4f036e1679b7> where the id is the data-id
    _text = _text.replace(/@<span data-type="mention" data-id="(.+?)" data-label="(.+?)">(.+?)<\/span>/g, '<@$1>');
    return _text;
  }
  return '';
}

HTML before conversion: <p>This is _ underscore <em> star and ^$&#</em>$*(>?.,\</p> 
Markdown after conversion: This is _ underscore * star and ^$&#$\*(>?.,\ 
Text after decoding HTML entities: This is _ underscore * star and ^$&#$\*(>?.,\

For some reason, on underscores and stars and some other characters I get escaping backslashes injected when converting it to markdown. I have not found any settings that allow me to get the markdown from showdown. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Post processing it seems a bit dirty. Appreciate any feedback