hexo + markdown issues

Backslash escapes

Hexo installs a plugin hexo-renderer-marked as the default Markdown renderer, but the plugin generates literal characters which are not what you want if have a backslash before these characters, such as "scrapy crawl <spider name>" becomes "scrapy crawl ". To fix this issue by replacing hexo-renderer-marked with hexo-renderer-markdown-it.

"Read More" link

Normally, we insert "<!-- more -->" into a post to display its summary, but don't work if using hexo-renderer-markdown-it with default configuration, hexo-renderer-markdown-it escapes HTML. To fix this issue by appending

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markdown:
  render:
    html: true

to Hexo's _config.yml.