Attempting to type *foo* (or similar) ranges from positions that are at the beginning of a line, but not at the beginning of the buffer, the Markdown lexer will refuse to highlight them due to a faulty condition. That condition has been patched in the attached file against LexMarkdown.cxx in rel-3-6-1.
ActiveState is the author of this patch. Thanks!
Committed as [b5b60d].
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