Escape character (backslash) should not show up in live preview

I’m writing an installation manual and this issue is quite bothersome as it interferes with some other characters. For example, the << character opens a string somehow, and highlights in green the section that follows:

When applying a backslash, it solves the green string highlight but now the person that’s applying this installation step wouldn’t be able to just copy paste the instruction.

Really hoping something is done about this