wikilinks within broken lists do not get parsed
Author: SeriousBugCreated Jul 22, 2021Updated Jul 27, 2025
Labelstype.bugscope.publisharea.retrieve
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- 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
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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
- In any note, write the following:
- [ ] [[good]]
- [n] [[bad]]- 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:

Source: dendronhq/dendron