From f7510976a3f369231c646fa6bd7e6018b3b1bba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Vytautas=20=C5=A0altenis?= <vytas@rtfb.lt>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:57:07 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix escaping asterisks within emphasis

First check for escaped character, *then* look if i-th character is an
emphasis character.

Closes #18.
---
 inline.go      | 7 +++----
 inline_test.go | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/inline.go b/inline.go
index 3f39b52..567740c 100644
--- a/inline.go
+++ b/inline.go
@@ -919,15 +919,14 @@ func helperFindEmphChar(data []byte, c byte) int {
 		if i >= len(data) {
 			return 0
 		}
-		if data[i] == c {
-			return i
-		}
-
 		// do not count escaped chars
 		if i != 0 && data[i-1] == '\\' {
 			i++
 			continue
 		}
+		if data[i] == c {
+			return i
+		}
 
 		if data[i] == '`' {
 			// skip a code span
diff --git a/inline_test.go b/inline_test.go
index 3821d49..280b461 100644
--- a/inline_test.go
+++ b/inline_test.go
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ func TestEmphasis(t *testing.T) {
 
 		"mix of *markers_\n",
 		"<p>mix of *markers_</p>\n",
+
+		"*What is A\\* algorithm?*\n",
+		"<p><em>What is A* algorithm?</em></p>\n",
 	}
 	doTestsInline(t, tests)
 }