Wikilink extension doesn't recognise links with ampersands in them

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Wikilink extension doesn't recognise links with ampersands in them #1268

Closed tw0shoes closed 2 years ago

tw0shoes commented 2 years ago

If we could change this line: WIKILINKRE = r'[[([\w0-9 -]+)]]'

to WIKILINKRE = r'[[([\w0-9 -&]+)]]'

that would fix the issue.

Thanks for everything.

waylan commented 2 years ago

As previously stated:

If I make any changes to this extension is would be to remove it from being included with Markdown. It only remains as it is very old. I suspect a better approach for you would be to either fork it or create your own new extension which offers the behavior you desire.

In fact, you may find a third-party extension which already offers a solution.

tw0shoes commented 2 years ago

Sorry, I did look for it, just didn't see that. Thanks! Sorry for the time-waster.