MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
Highlighting broken for images with spaces in the filepath
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Description
When image references contain spaces the output is rendered correctly but the image tag is not highlighted. Here is an example for testing:
Here is how MacDown renders the image tag in the editor:
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in MacDown using the two Markdown image references shown in the report, comparing highlighting for paths with and without spaces. Trace the editor's Markdown image-highlighting entry point and verify that the image tag remains highlighted when its filepath contains spaces.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, markdown, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100