Square brackets (even if escaped) in text section of markdown links leads to non functional links in Live Preview mode

Bug reports
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Steps to reproduce

Consider a link to a Youtube-Video with the title

[4K] Die Neue Wache in Berlin

These markdown links works only in reading mode:

  • [[4K] Die Neue Wache in Berlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqR2uxowNVM)
  • [\[4K\] Die Neue Wache in Berlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqR2uxowNVM)

but not in live preview mode.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y]

I created a test vault from scratch and additionally tried the sandbox vault and the behaviour is the same.

Expected result

At least with escaped brackets the links should work in live preview mode, too.

Actual result

Links dont’t work in live preview mode, only in reading mode

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.10
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Home 10.0.19045
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

n/a

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Looks like a duplicate of the report here:

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Not quite. It focusses solely on non-escaped brackets:

live preview is currently handling nested non-escaped square brackets erratically

In my report, I point out, that even escaped square brackets don’t behave as expexted. In my opinion this is a more severe issue, since escaping a special character should work under (almost) all circumstances.

1 Like
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Escaping not working was reported in a comment on that thread: Erratic handling of nested square brackets - #18 by biddibear

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I obviously didn’t read so far, sorry. So this thread may be closed/deleted.

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