title: How do you display a section of plain text in GitHub markdown?
body: <p>I'm having a hard time finding any real answer to this (really simple?) question on Google, and I'm starting to worry that there is no solution.</p>
  <p>I am learning GitHub markdown. I would like to show some example code that contains fake email address like <code>user@example.com</code>. But GitHub insists on auto-linking this text. I also have a large chunk of text that has many special characters.</p>
  <p>Is there a way to escape blocks or sections so that no special characters are processed, and no auto-links are generated?</p>