Can't put a pipe symbol in a table

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Good morning

I think there’s a bug when trying to actually display a pipe symbol in a table.

If you look down at the bottom of the GFM table reference it says you can include a pipe symbol in a table by backslash escaping the pipe.

This is the example from GFM,

| Name     | Character |
| ---      | ---       |
| Backtick | `         |
| Pipe     | \|        |

and it works here in Discourse,

Name Character
Backtick `
Pipe |

but it doesn’t work in Checkvist:
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I found this trying to make a table of REGEX strings I often use and one of them had a few pipe symbols in it.

2

I just tried putting a back tick in the table cell, so that the REGEX string would be interpreted as code, but that didn’t help.

Other markdown in other table cells seems to work. I was able to italicize and I was able to back tick simple strings (including folder paths that contained a forward slash). But as soon as you try to include a pipe as a visual character in the table cell it all breaks down!

3

Sorry for the problem. Looks like this is a bug in a javascript library we use (remarkable). Will try to fix this weekend and let you know.

Best,

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4

Please check how it works on https://beta.checkvist.com, should be fixed there.

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5

Yes, it is! Thank you.

But only the basic usage. If I try to enclose the line with pipes between back ticks then it doesn’t work! I’ve tried a few variations when enclosing the string in back ticks. There’s no problem with italic and bold though (one or two underscores or asterisks).

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The Remarkable Demo seems to suffer from the same bug although Remarkable issue #115 and Remarkable issue #56 imply that is fixed!?

6

Good point, you’re right, the fix was not complete. The issues you mentioned were not integrated into Remarkable as they were not quite valid (they require presence of space around |, and this is not a part of the GFM spec).

Anyway, I hope I’ve fixed the issue in Checkvist, please check it again :slight_smile:

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7

Yes you have! Thank you!!!

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8

Good afternoon

Any idea when this fix will be pushed to production and not just in the beta?

Thanks,

9

Hello,

I hope we’ll release this at the end of the next week. This fix was not a single one and could not be easily cherry-picked to production, and now there are quite some additional changes which should be tested (think custom priority colors).

Best,

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10

Hi, pipes in markdown are finally on https://checkvist.com .

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