Arkisto, lokakuu 2022

Yes, it’s mainly about expectation

11. lokakuuta 2022 klo 19.47
Sijainti: Vianhallintajärjestelmät: Github
Avainsanat: Mattermost

Hi @hmhealey,

Yes, it’s mainly about expectation. For an actual use case, I noticed this when mentioning an IRC channel name, which became a long, distracting and useless hashtag link, exacerbated by agglutination and multi-word hyphenation typical in Finnish, (e.g. #channelname-irc-kanavalla). I tried to make it less distracting by editing in a preceding backslash, only to discover that it didn’t work here.

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No way to escape a word-starting hash character (#) in plaintext

11. lokakuuta 2022 klo 18.12
Sijainti: Vianhallintajärjestelmät: Github
Avainsanat: Mattermost

Summary

There is no way to escape a word-starting hash character (#) in plaintext.

Steps to reproduce

In MM 7.3.0, post this, verbatim: \#anything

Expected behavior

#anything

Observed behavior (that appears unintentional)

#anything

Possible fixes

Workaround: instead of ”\#anything”, post this: &#​35;anything

Using backticks (`\#anything`) also works, but obviously the word then gets formatted as code and not plaintext.

Other notes

This is mainly an issue of inconsistency and surprise: backslash works to escape most other special formatting, so I’d expect it to work here too.

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Still present in Nextcloud 3.21.2

1. lokakuuta 2022 klo 18.46
Sijainti: Vianhallintajärjestelmät: Github
Avainsanat: Android, Samsung

Still present in Nextcloud 3.21.2. My device is a Samsung A9 running Android 10.

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