Steps to reproduce
In Obsidian Sandbox, paste the following text:
[][^]
Anything can go in the first set of brackets or after the caret. The text following that snippet will be treated as cm-error (and formatted red) until another open and close square bracket [] appears.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Y
Expected result
Text should not be “cm-error.”
As you might guess, the basic situation where this happens is footnote reference after square brackets, which is not uncommon in technical/academic writing, so seems like it should be fixed. My current workaround is to put open and close brackets after the footnote, which I take out at a later stage in the editing process.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.10.6
Installer version: v1.9.14
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 25.1.0: Mon Oct 20 19:32:47 PDT 2025; root:xnu-12377.41.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 25.1.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none