Square Brackets Interference

deckar01 commented 8 years ago

From @marcguyer on January 13, 2015 14:39

When using square brackets in the beginning of the content of a list item, the checking of boxes doesn't work as expected. Here's an example:

[ ] This is a normal item
[ ] [Try] one with brackets at the beginning
[x] Try one [with] brackets in the middle
[ ] No brackets again

For a good time, try clicking the second task.

_Copied from original issue: github-archive/tasklist#51

deckar01 commented 8 years ago

From @marcguyer on January 13, 2015 14:44

Here's another thought:

[ ] Something typical
[ ] What about a link at the beginning?
[ ] and again...

Well... that seems to work...

deckar01 commented 8 years ago

From @marcguyer on January 17, 2015 15:31

I see now that you can optionally (perhaps unnecessarily?) use a space between the brackets in a reference-style link:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link

That's annoying but perhaps still should be considered a bug?

deckar01 commented 8 years ago

From @mtodd on January 29, 2015 5:41

@marcguyer thanks for reporting this issue! The rendering looks fine, but the update behavior does appear to be affected by this issue.

Markdown gives us the \ to escape the brackets to prevent it from being rendered as a link, which will fix the broken behavior here, too. For instance:

- [ ] [try] breaks things, but
- [ ] \[try] works

[ ] [try] breaks things, but
[ ] [try] works

Unfortunately, you need to put the \ in front of the brackets on all of the lines that you want to use square brackets on, otherwise it'll be broken.

I'll try to dig in and figure out how to prevent the issue.

deckar01 commented 8 years ago

Reproduced on master.