Malformed Markdown lines "destroy" the editor

[kuolemaaa]

I am running notediscovery on my linux server. I accessed it on my windows host via firefox. I dont have any other possible combination at the moment but i am pretty sure this is reproducible.

There are some, let's call them, malformed markdown lines that fuck up the editor.
And when I say fuck the editor up I mean: It is like the text that I read on the editor panel is just a visual representation of a real editor that contains the real cursor and with the right malformed markdown lines those two reseprentation of the file do not match anymore; that is when I type a character in a certain line in reality I'm typing that character on another line. I realized that when I selected lines.

A kind of text that break this is this one. I needed to retype it by hand since when I select the text I select another text:

# Header Header Header

## HeaderTwo
### HeaderThree

####


## AfterMalformed 
WIP
# ## MALFORMED
line1
line2
alice
bob
charlie
darma
ethan
francis
giovanni
hector
isabel
john
kevin
luke
manuel

Notice the line with only four pound characters '#'.
Notice the empty lines after that line with 4 pounds are TWO, they will renderes as THREE (see below).
Notice the line with <pound><Space><pound><pound><Space>MALFORMED; I guess this is considered malformed.
When I select from the absolute first char of the file to the middle of the word "AfterMalformed" nothing there in reality is selected.
When I select from the fist char of the file to the list of names I can see that the selected text is offset from the "printed" text.

The product of the selected text is, instead, this one:

# Header Header Header

## HeaderTwo
### HeaderThree

####



## AfterMalformed 
WIP
#
## MALFORMED
line1
line2
alice
bob
charlie
darma
ethan
francis
giovanni
hector
isabel
john
kevin
luke
manuel

Let me know if this is reproducible.

[kuolemaaa]

To add another thing:

The lines with only 4 pounds will be rendered in the editor as a line concatenation of the 4 pounds and the line above:

Typed text:

####
Hello there

Will be rendered in the editor as:

#### Hello there

But when I want to select both the #### and the Hello there I need to selec them in two lines even if visually they are on the same line

[kuolemaaa]

The bug is present when syntax highlight is enabled

[gamosoft]

Hi there, sorry been busy. 😉

Yes this is a known issue that keeps popping up every now and again, it has to do with the way the syntax highlighter works for certain elements, it adds another layer to the HTML pane, so what you see is the "highlighted", whereas you work on the "hidden" normal container.

This is what your sample looks like (just tested in the demo site online):

The issue seems to be in the way some markdown elements are processed when "incomplete", so in your example the header 4 has no title, so it's misinterpreted, if you do add a title:

the problem goes away. Even if you add just a blank space after the 4th # you'll see the rest of the contents move up/down.

Let me see when I can take a look but as a workaround for now you have 2 options, either fully compose the markdown or disable the syntax highlighting. ☹️

Thanks for reporting this.

[kuolemaaa]

Hi there, sorry been busy. 😉

I didn't expect any response. it's the weekend, have some rest. thank you for the answer, tho.

The issue seems to be in the way some markdown elements are processed when "incomplete", so in your example the header 4 has no title, so it's misinterpreted, if you do add a title:

Yes, I noticed it.

It's ok. I don't pretend fix ASAP or something. You can leave it as it is and times will tell. I can guess it is not directly under your control and probably the problem is the syntax highlight library or something.

take care!

[gamosoft]

Please try latest version and let me know, don't forget to refresh your browser to effectively load the latest code:
https://github.com/gamosoft/NoteDiscovery/releases/tag/v0.15.4

Thank you!