Markdown Marketplace: no link, [foo](bar.com), inside literal text, single and triple back tick

[rioj7]

The file README.md from the extension is used by the Marketplace website. If you use [foo] followed by (bar) inside literal text, single and triple back tick, it is recognized as a Markdown link.

This construct happens easily in regular expressions.

\s*[^!@#](.*)

The .* is expanded to the full directory of the README.md file.

The Markdown syntax highlighting in VSC has a similar problem, it marks the text between () as a clickable link.

The Markdown Preview shows the literal text correct.

[fiveisprime]

@prashantvc can you take a look at this one as well?

[rioj7]

Markdown files allow the use of HTML Entities

By replacing [abcd] with [abcd] the link is no longer detected. for this to work you have to place the content of the single and triple back tick between HTML tags <code></code> and <pre><code></code></pre> and you need to translate &, < and > to the HTML Entities &, < and >

The example of the question needs to be written in Markdown file as:

<pre><code>\s*&lsqb;^!@#&rsqb;(.*)</code></pre>

[Neelima10735584]

Hi,
Thank you for contacting the VS Marketplace Team. The issue has been resolved, and the manifest file now contains HTML tags converted to Markdown links. If the error persists, please feel free to reopen or create a new issue.

Regards,
VS Marketplace Team

[Neelima10735584]

Closing the issue since there has been no updates on the information requested. If the issue still persists, please feel free to reopen or create a new issue.