Markdown markup for fixed font does not work on start of a line

[BenWiederhake]

The following one-liner does exactly what it looks like:

This is a `hello-world` example.

And so do these two lines, as the linebreak isn't too special in plain Markdown:

This is a
`hello-world` example.

However, geany/scintilla/ctags/whatever doesn't recognize the backtick correctly if it happens to be at the start of a line, and wasn't at the start of the line before(?).

Steps to reproduce:

• Open Geany, open a new tab
• Write This is a hello-world example. in a line
• Put the cursor right after the word a
• Hit enter. The new line should start with a space, then a backtick
• Press "delete" on your keyboard

Actual behavior: The hello-world is no longer shown in the correct color (blue-ish in my case), but as normal text (black in my case; I should still have default syntax colors).

Expected behavior: The hello-world should still be in the correct collor, as it is still a valid markup for inline-code.

Note that something fishy is going on, because if you add a newline before the paragraph, then it apparently get's re-parsed correctly, fixing the display.

EDIT: It also fails to markup What a nice (num_deaths == 0) day! correctly, apparently the combination of opening-round-parenthesis and backtick doesn't work, somehow. This does not fix itself like the thing above.

[codebrainz]

This is a bug in the Scintilla Markdown lexer. It looks like it might have been fixed already, but in general syntax highlighting bugs should be submitted to Scintilla's bug tracker, as we don't maintain it or modify the Scintilla lexing code.

[b4n]

I can't reproduce the bug in the current development version, which includes the fix mentioned by @codebrainz, so I guess it fixes it indeed.

The second issue is apparently different, and isn't fixed in current development version, neither on our side not in Scintilla's. It would then be worth reporting it to them.

[BenWiederhake]

Please reopen the issue because of the second part.
Upstream bug is #1804