Improperly Rendered Open Square Bracket Escape Sequence

Enter the following text. It is a bullet point followed by a word enclosed in square brackets. The square brackets need to be escaped with \ in order to render.

*\[Hello\]

This should render as:

  • [Hello]

But it instead renders as:

  • Hello]

This appears to be a bug.

Can i ask why you are escaping this?

Wouldn’t that be similar to this one:

or this:

Yes, I use a particular notation format.

In this case, I agree it is not absolutely necessary to escape the square brackets. Actually, I shouldn’t have said above that they “need” to be escaped. However, I often put links inside my square brackets, and then it does seem to be necessary to escape them. I just reduced this bug down to its most basic format for this report.

Yes, I think this is basically the same:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/escaped-brackets-as-the-first-word-of-a-list-item-are-not-shown-correctly-in-editing-view/87585

YEs this is the same bug as the other two recent BR. I asked because I am surprised why all of a sudden we are getting people reporting this. I was wondering if there is a common pattern.

Anyway, will be fixed in 1.7.2

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