Note titles ending in slashes create files like foo/.md. That's a dot file, hidden by many tools by default, and usually intended to contain something other than your regular file content.
I discovered this while messing with templates, trying to take notes about webpages, with the URL as a title.
I think the slugifier should remove trailing slashes.
riccardoferretti
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2 years ago
Describe the bug
Note titles ending in slashes create files like
foo/.md. That's a dot file, hidden by many tools by default, and usually intended to contain something other than your regular file content.I discovered this while messing with templates, trying to take notes about webpages, with the URL as a title.
I think the slugifier should remove trailing slashes.
Different language, but just for background: I wrote a slugifier in Go at https://github.com/tv42/slug where I specifically put attention into handling this kind of input. It munges the input more, flattening it into a single directory (
https://github.com/tv42/slug->github-com-tv42-slug), which you may or may not like, but feel free to steal the tests https://github.com/tv42/slug/blob/2fc6af481f773c93cac07009d43047f16f17ca7f/slug_test.go#L13-L20 or grab ideas from the implementation: https://github.com/tv42/slug/blob/master/slug.goSmall Reproducible Example
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Steps to Reproduce the Bug or Issue
Control-shift-P, "Foam: Create New Note", and enter as title "foo/". The created file will be
foo/.md.Expected behavior
I expect end-user tools to not create dotfiles accidentally.
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Operating System Version
NixOS 22.05 (Linux)
Visual Studio Code Version
1.68.1
Additional context
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