MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
Do not parse markup inside html comments
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- Rich Text Format
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Description
In the following example, the underscores are used to apply italics - removing them from the output. Github handles this fine. I'm fine with comments being output, but they should be output as-is.
`
Bla bla bla bla bla bla
`
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Research direction
Reproduce the reported example in MacDown and inspect the Markdown parsing path that handles HTML comments. Confirm that comments are emitted as-is, including underscores, and verify that markup inside them is not parsed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown, objective-c
- Domain
- content, desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100