Quoted blocks removed when visiting topics

[PuercoPop]

In particular I've encountered this behaviour in this Pull Request

stumpwm/stumpwm#544 (comment)

Note that there is a line with one empty space where the quoted block should be. Also I verified in the SQLite database that the quoted blocks are present

[vermiculus]

This might be a gfm-mode setting; did you check any variables that might be hiding markup? (My wife is hoarding my laptop right now but I think it's labeled as some sort of 'clean' mode.)

[PuercoPop]

This might be a gfm-like setting; did you check any variables that might be hiding markup? (My wife is hoarding my laptop right now but I think it's labeled as some sort of 'clean' mode.)

I can't find anything that might be doing so, but you've given me an idea. It may be that markdown-mode may be interpreting the content as the lang of the code-block as the whole quoted text is one line with triple backticks

[vermiculus]

the whole quoted text is one line with triple backticks

Considering that's not how quotes are formatted in markdown, I'd say it's a safe bet that it's not going to be interpreted as a quote :-) Quotes are formatted thus:

> this is a quote

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For posterity, I'm pretty sure the variable I was thinking of is markdown-hide-markup-in-view-modes.

[PuercoPop]

@vermiculus Yes, I quote with > but I don't control how other people use markup. Thanks for the pointer of markdown-hide-markup-in-view-modes but that didn't do the trick. Although I suspect the 'bug' is more likely to be in markdown-mode, I'll look into it. Thanks for the pointers again!

[vermiculus]

I find it unlikely that markdown-mode will ever do what you're asking it to do (which is to effectively ignore the most basic syntax rules of markdown!), but you might be able to hack the regular expressions markdown-mode uses to recognize quote blocks. You'll have better luck convincing others to use markdown correctly, I think :-)

It is odd though that from getting the fontified text in forge--fontify-markdown to inserting it in forge-topic-refresh-buffer, we seem to loose the content in ```triple quotes```.

[tarsius]

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[tarsius]

markdown-mode sets invisible to markdown-markup for all of

```text```

If the delimiters are just one or two backquotes, then it doesn't do that. At least gfm-mode shouldn't treat three backquotes the same as two because three opening and closing backquotes on the same line is valid gfm syntax and in that case the text part is not part of the markup its the content, unlike in

```language
content
```

where language is part of the markup.

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The reason that setting markdown-hide-markup-in-view-modes is that it only affects the buffer in which the parsing happens. If we copy text from there into another buffer, then the invisible property still has the normal affect. As a workaround do this in the topic buffer:

(remove-from-invisibility-spec 'markdown-markup)

[tarsius]

Fixed with jrblevin/markdown-mode#492.