How to write underscore "_" in comments?

Question

Many GDScript funstions have 2 underscores inside and thus instead of underscore sign "_" we see text in italics.

Answer 1

Actually for GDScript code you should always use backquotes as mentioned by bojidar_bg, or use a complete code block formatting (by prefixing everything with four spaces, or selecting your copy-pasted code and clicking the "code" button). For example:

    func _input_event():
        # this is a properly formatted code chunk
        # and underscore_are_not_parsed_as_italic_markers

Which gives:

func _input_event():
    # this is a properly formatted code chunk
    # and underscore_are_not_parsed_as_italic_markers

But for normal text that contains underscores (e.g. URLs), it can indeed be a bother that it gets processed as Markdown italics, so you need to escape the underscore as mentioned by lukas (e.g.: some\_text\_with\_underscores), or format it as code as suggested by bojidar_bg (e.g.: `some_text_with_underscores`).

Answer 2

Solution is to write backslash "\" before the underscore: "\_".

Answer 3

Use the grave accent character to surround code. It would look like this:

Using `_fixed_process` we can...

Using _fixed_process we can...