#1016·dendron

wikilinks within broken lists do not get parsed

Author: SeriousBugCreated Jul 22, 2021Updated Jul 27, 2025
Labelstype.bugscope.publisharea.retrieve

Please select the area your Bug applys to. (Multiple selections are Possible)

  • Onboard. Initial vault setup and import/export pods
  • Create. Note creation, lookup, snippets and templates
  • Retrieve. Backlinks, references, graph view
  • Structure. Refactoring, multi-vault and schemas
  • Publish. Sharing your repo with the world
  • Misc (Choose this if your not sure)

Describe the bug

A wikilink within a broken list does not get parsed as a wikilink. As a result, syntax highlighting and backlinks are broken.

To Reproduce

  1. In any note, write the following:
- [ ] [[good]]
- [n] [[bad]]
  1. Ctrl+click each link to create the notes.

At this point, you'll find that [[good]] is highlighted, but [[bad]] is not. If you go to these notes, good will have a backlink, but bad will not.

Expected behavior

These links should also get parsed, at which point highlighting and backlinks will work.

Desktop (please complete the following information)

  • OS: Linux
  • Version: 0.51

Additional context

Apart from just getting wikilinks inside bad lists to parse, I think a good option could be to create a custom list parser that allows customizable checkmark markers. This could be as simple as defining unicode symbols in dendron.yml, which are overlaid on top of the checkmark in publishing & HTML preview. Here is a mockup of what I mean: