Error: SimpleJekyllSearch --- failed to get JSON (/search.json)

[milosmns]

I'm using the Norlin theme and my generated search.json file now contains the following:

{
  "title"    : "Ubuntu · Software Updates",
  "content"  : "... the whole “update + cleanup” sequence could look like this:sudo apt-get update && \sudo apt-get upgrade -y ...",
  ...
}

This is the look on the page:

I had to replace the .min.js with a non-mini version to be able to debug further. Logging the actual error would have been nice, but I found the root cause. Basically the backslash is breaking the search plugin. And I really need that backslash in the code block in markdown, there's no way around it.

So I guess the search.json generator needs to be fixed to escape backslashes... I have no experience with Jekyll or this plugin, just as a side-note. 🙂

What do you propose to address this problem?