Linking to a new note with a slash in the title doesn't allow me to go to a new note

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Steps to reproduce

In a note, create a link to a note that doesn’t exist. It could be as simple as [[a/b]], just make sure that there’s a slash in the title.
Holding down left control, double click on the link to create the new, non-existent note.

Expected result

It creates a new note and takes me to it.

Actual result

An error pops up about the file not existing. In the case above with [[a/b]], it’s apparently looking for a file at the path <vault location>\a\b.md (yes, the backslash is intentional, despite it being a forward slash in the markdown. Not sure if it’s relevant to the issue or not).

Environment

  • Operating system: Windows 10
  • Obsidian version: v0.6.7
  • Using custom CSS:
    No

Additional information

The new note default location setting is set to ‘Same folder as the file is in’.

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Does the folder ‘a’ exist?
What happens if the folder ‘a’ exists?

FYI, we only automatically create the files not the folders.

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Yeah, that makes sense - I wasn’t expecting it to create the folder, but to create a note with a / in the title. It was a situation where ‘and/or’ felt appropriate.

It does create a note if the folder exists.

I just realized that I can’t put a / in a filename, and the title is always used as a filename, so this behaviour makes sense to me. It’d be nice to have a friendlier error message like you get if you try to put a / in the title of a new note, but I’m not sure how it could be done. The / is a valid character for links, so you couldn’t just detect that…