MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
Bold and Italics Highlighting Bug in Editor
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Description
The following lines will highlight incorrectly in the Editor only:
```markdown
***bold italics*** not ***bold italics***
```
However the following will be fine:
```markdown
**bold** not **bold**
```
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the highlighting behavior in the Editor with the provided ***bold italics*** and **bold** Markdown examples. Locate the Editor's Markdown emphasis-highlighting entry point and verify that the fix preserves the working double-asterisk case while correcting the triple-asterisk case.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100