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		benihana on July 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sublime Text packages are on GitHub markdown uses words wrapped in single asterisks for italics. You're using bbcode. `this will be italics` produces: this will be italics

lambda on July 2, 2015 [–]

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