Aliases autocomplete in tables doesn't apply escaping character before "|"

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I couldn’t find this bug filed yet, so I’m reporting.

Inside tables the character | has conflict with the table format, so aliases in wikilinks work like this in Obsidian when they are inside tables:
[[File Title\|Alias]].

Everyone wants to write quickly when linking aliases but every time it links inside a table it does without the escaping character like this [[File Title|Alias]] and we have to add the \ before the | manually. And it is exhausting for big tables.

So, the expected behavior is that it should first check if it is inside a table and if so then add also the escaping character \ before the alias pipeline |.

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I cannot reproduce that. Whenever I include a link inside a table cell, then inside the link type a pipe followed by an alias, the table remains intact and the properly working link displays the alias. This also works correctly when autocompleting a suggestion by hitting Tab, then typing the pipe symbol before typing the alias.

If I misunderstood your issue, you may need to clarify a bit more and provide specific steps that allows others to reproduce your issue. Obviously, you always should mention your operating system and Obsidian version, because issues can be specific. My version of Obsidian is 1.5.12 on Linux Fedora 40.

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I’m talking about the autocompletion when the alias already exists. The expected behavior when typing [[ and then start typing the alias and clicking or pressing enter selecting the correct file, is that the algorithm should detect when the link is inside a table and add the \ before the |. Otherwise, it breaks the table syntax for markdown that does’t bypass this | character inside the links. So, I don’t want to have to find the pipe, move my cursor there and type it manually every time. It is stressful when you are editing a long table inserting links with aliases. This should be automated.

EDIT: I just retested and it seems this is fixed. I couldn’t reproduce it again. Now Obsidian doesn’t break the table as the alias | character was the end of the cell and it is not needed to use the \| syntax.

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I didn’t notice it in Live Preview because it wont appear, but actually in source mode it is adding \ before the |, so it is actually still the right syntax to write it. It is incredible how even just by writing | in Live Preview it already converts automatically to \| in the source mode. The devs did a great job!

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