[Markdown] Respect all whitespace characters #110515
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Thanks for posting in the GitHub Community, @JamesTheAwesomeDude ! We're happy you're here. You are more likely to get a useful response if you are posting your question in the applicable category, the Projects and Issues category is solely related to conversations around the GitHub products Issues and Projects. I've gone ahead and moved it for you. Good luck! |
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I see... I thought that since my request was about how Issues (and comments on Issues) are formatted, it belonged in that forum. |
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@JamesTheAwesomeDude thanks for clarifying and I apologize I saw commits and my mind went elsewhere. I've moved it back and added the appropriate tags. Have a great weekend! |
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I wish that the Markdown parser you use had better whitespace detection, particularly when it comes to auto-linkifying commits.
Current Behavior (undesirable)
For example, if I type the following fragment:
It renders as:
This is a bummer because it doesn't link the issue, which is a major lack of functionality.
Current workaround #1 (undesirable)
If I stick a space after “pre-”, it works:
But this is a bummer because it's pretty hideous.
Current workaround #2 (undesirable)
If I manually format it, it works:
This is a bummer because it's extra work.
Requested workaround
The Zero-Width Non-Joiner character was made for this use-case, where you want two semantically- and whitespace-separated "words" to be displayed physically "without" any whitespace between them, even though the whitespace logically exists:
Another alternative fix would be to revert the /IMPLIB injection code to its pre-‌06830ada1cda3595d2a1f222fd8cbed35bdb691e behavior, just nestling it in a top-level …but Github doesn't currently respect this, rendering the HTML exactly as if there were no whitespace characters surrounding the commit hash.
(I seem to be the first to ask this.)
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