Markdown: When paragraph starts with * it is (falsely) treated as a list

[uliska]

This is related to #4 but I'd say it's an issue of its own.

When a paragraph starts with a * * highlighting reflowing turns it into a list with arbitrary list items:

*Note:* This is a very long paragraph that starts with a highlighted word. But it is not a list

=>
*Note:* This is a very long paragraph that
*starts with a highlighted word. But
*it is not a list

However, this isn't even rendered as a list but as a paragraph with interspersed asterisks.

Suggestion: To be interpreted as a list there has to be whitespace after the leading asterisk.

[uliska]

Update: The same is true when the paragraph starts with a ** highlighting:

**Summary:**   Whenever you see an expression wrapped in parentheses you know
**that it is a list whose first element should be a procedure, which is then
**applied to all remaining list elements *(note that there is the concept of

Which causes even stranger results

[cwensel]

would be great if this line was configurable, so '*' could be excluded

linePrefix = block.match(/^\s*[\/#*-]*\s*/g)[0]

[daviwil]

This issue was moved to atom/atom#18024