How to get Jira comments to not automatically strikethrough when typing a hyphen?

Question

Incredibly frustrating this: in a comment, I'll type a range say, or something else where a hyphen is normally expected, and Jira then deletes the hyphen and strikes through the entire line.

Expected: We ran the simulation for 20-30 minutes with no result.

Actual:  ̶W̶e̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶u̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶2̶0̶3̶0̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶ ̶h̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶g̶h̶!̶

Payne · Answer

Kind of a pain to have to remember to do it, but a backslash prior to the hyphen will escape it and prevent it from being interpreted.

e.g. \-don't strike through this text\-

Jason Trautschold · Answer

Hmm, sorry that that solution won't work. It sounds like you are using Wiki style markup, you may want to try changing to the Default Text Renderer for the Comment field. The setting can be found by going to the project settings, then> Fields > Actions > Click to edit fields. Then, find the field you would like to edit (in this case Comment) and click on Renderers, changing it to Default Text Renderer. Hope that works.

Mike Ely · Answer

Thanks for your reply. It seems like this would kill all formatting. Is there instead a way to specifically target this hyphenation-to-strikethrough unwanted feature? We do a lot of things like method->execute(a-z) which leads to expected angst, and even if it's per-user this seems like something that should be a toggle to get rid of (or better yet wrap in barbed wire and fire into the sun).