<p dir="auto">As you can see in the attached image, markdown syntax highlighter takes into account the _ and * present in a code block. I think that it should ignore any of these characters if they are within an indented code block.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1644647/7028774/676c14c4-dd58-11e4-95db-0bd2a122ec42.png"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1644647/7028774/676c14c4-dd58-11e4-95db-0bd2a122ec42.png" alt="atom-markdown-highlight" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">No problem when I use fenced code blocks. But indented blocks are much easier.</p>
<p dir="auto">I hope that this is the right place to report it.<br>
I'm using Atom 0.189.0</p>
<p dir="auto">If one wants to write a <code class="notranslate">*</code> as a normal char, not as a bold or italic start char, things will go wrong.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1456096/4028399/a8322b4c-2c3c-11e4-81cf-d490a71e1a1d.png"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1456096/4028399/a8322b4c-2c3c-11e4-81cf-d490a71e1a1d.png" alt="2014-08-25 5 45 47" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">Even,when there is no newline after the line contains the <code class="notranslate">*</code><br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1456096/4028407/c5f1884e-2c3c-11e4-8069-62513190b4c3.png"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1456096/4028407/c5f1884e-2c3c-11e4-8069-62513190b4c3.png" alt="2014-08-25 5 46 53" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">When the <code class="notranslate">*</code> is the last char of one line, everything is ok...</p>