# Reference-style links not parsed correctly in Editing mode

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/reference-style-links-not-parsed-correctly-in-editing-mode/36713>\
**Category:** Bug graveyard\
**Created:** [April 29, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/reference-style-links-not-parsed-correctly-in-editing-mode/36713 "2022-04-29T17:57:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tesseract](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@Tesseract](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Tesseract)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/reference-style-links-not-parsed-correctly-in-editing-mode/36713/3 "2022-04-29T19:15:43Z")

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Searching in the bug reports didn’t wield any matches, which is what I did before submitting the report. However, widening the scope to feature requests did locate [this](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/support-reference-links-in-edit-mode-live-preview-reference-style/32286) past bug report that got moved by you to be a feature request.

This is clearly a bug, however, and not a missing feature. Not only is the behavior of following a link inconsistent between the “Editing” and “Reading” views, but clicking the link on the former has the completely unexpected, not to mention unwanted, side effect of creating a note with the title `[`.

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