Markdown Field Plugin, target blank in a link makes following text italic

I’m using the Markdown field Plugin. When adding target:_blank to a link the text following this link gets wrapped in a span tag:

<span class="cm-em">I'm italic text</span>.

Example:

Could you please create an issue in the plugin’s repo?

I’m afraid, I can’t …

I just ran into the exact same issue and opened the issue here.

Edit: Some other user let me know, that this issue has already been opened before here, so I guess we can just hope that the developers will look into this at some point.

@trych Thanks, for the info