Understood, but it is a consequence of a bad choice Digital Research (CPM) made, and Microsoft copied -- making \ the path separator while the rest of the world, like Unix, programming languages, etc., made \ the escape character. It has caused problems forever!
You can make it visually right by doubling to \\ but then it won't work in the filesystem. You might want to put in a code insert `text` using the ` character at the beginning and end.