Turn off the effects of enclosing in forward slash

[Harry Putnam]

I think  I once learned  how to turn  off the way emacs  hides slashes
when  they are around  a world  like /home/  (Use C-u  g to  view this
message  if  you don't  see  forward  slashes  around home)  but  have
forgotten it since it wasn't something that I care about very often.

But every so often it causes me to do trouble shooting of something
that doesn't need it.