Lists (ul and ol) inside code block are broken

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Steps to reproduce

  • Create code block
  • Start a new ul with "- " or ol with "1. " inside the code block
  • Press enter/return to start a new line

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes.

Expected result

I would expect either the ul/ol to behave as they do outside of the code block, and continue the ul/ol with a "- " or "2. " on the new line OR for the new line to start without anything in it

Actual result

The new line starts with a blank indent the length of the ul/ol syntax (two-space length and three-space length respectively)

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.7
Installer version: 1.12.4
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 25.4.0: Thu Mar 19 19:33:33 PDT 2026; root:xnu-12377.101.15~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8140 25.4.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 1
Plugins enabled: 1
1: Maps v0.1.6
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Additional information

I’m pretty sure this was broken less than a year and a half ago, and I’ve just taken a long time to get around to making a bug report for it, since it’s a relatively easy-to-fix-and-forget-about annoyance in my daily work routine. I know that the behavior prior to breaking was that the ul/ol would continue inside the code block like it did outside of it, but I also understand if it makes more logical sense to not do that inside a code block.
I have reproduced this bug on various devices (Mac, PC, iOS), including in vaults without any community plugins - the device I’m writing this bug report on just happens to have one single plugin on it right now.

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I don’t consider this a bug.

If are writing anything except MARKDOWN, doing what you suggest is gonna be pretty annoying to the users.

We should not even add the spaces.

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Yep, that’s what I mention in the second part of the ‘Expected Result’ part of my post—I understand that since it’s a code block it might not need to format as a list, even though it did in the past. Either way, though, I think adding the spaces is still a bug?

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thanks, I will write the BR for that.

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