Unable to prevent Dendron from treating @ as a user tag by escaping it

[bugfixd]

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Describe the bug

I sometimes want to prevent Dendron from treating an "at sign" followed by a word (e.g. @hello) as a user tag.

I've tried escaping the @ sign, e.g. \@hello, but Dendron still treats it as a user tag.

My current workaround is to enclose the whole thing in backticks, e.g. `@hello`.

Note: This is not exactly a bug — maybe just an oversight? Escaping works with hashtags (e.g. \#not-a-tag) and links (e.g. \[not a link]), and so imho it should also work with @ signs. 😉

Expected behavior

I would like to be able to escape an @ sign to prevent Dendron from interpreting it as a user tag.

Desktop (please complete the following information)

• OS: Windows 10 Pro
• Browser (if with published websites; include version): Chrome
• Versions (all that apply to bug):
  • Dendron Extension: 0.97.0
  • VS Code version: 1.67.2

[SeriousBug]

Thanks for the report, I'll take a look!

I didn't know hashtags supported escaping actually 😅 but it should be easy enough to add to user tags too.

[bugfixd]

@SeriousBug ,

I've noticed a related issue:

When a word has an @ sign in the middle of it, Dendron treats it as a user tag — although it correctly handles words that look like email addresses:

[SeriousBug]

Thanks, I can recreate the issue. The same actually seems to happen with hashtags, test#ing will cause the #ing part to be recognized as a tag.

I'm pretty sure this used to work, I think our parser changed how it works so it's not functioning anymore. In any case, I'm working on a fix for this. I'll also add support for escaping.

[SeriousBug]

Dendron 0.99 will now ignore @ and # symbols inside of words when parsing user and hashtags. I'll convert this issue to an enhancement to add support for escaping tags.