obsidian-linter: Bug: Re-Index footnotes also moves footnotes to the bottom

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Describe the Bug

Re-Index Footnotes moves footnotes to the bottom, even when Move Footnotes to the bottom is unticked.

How to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

In Linter settings, make sure Re-index Footnotes is turned on and Move Footnotes to the bottom is turned off.
Make a new document with the following text (without blockquotes):

foo [^1]

[^1]: bar

foobar

Lint manually or via auto-lint on save.

Expected Behavior

Expected behavior is that nothing should happen.

Device

Desktop
Mobile (iOS)

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 9 months ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 37

Most upvoted comments

I just merged in the change for this bug. Hopefully it will fix most, if not all, of the issues mentioned. It is now on master and should be in the next release. Please let us know if there is an issue with either of those.

Thanks again for all of the feedback and help on this!

pjkaufman on Dec 12, 2023

That is correct. I missed the zip process. Here is a new zip (I hope). If not it will need to wait until tomorrow.

main.zip

pjkaufman on Dec 12, 2023

Perhaps I need an updated main.js?

I see the issue. It was a bug in the regex for the footnote definitions which was causing the issue. I already fixed it before I saw it causing the issue with your results (so like 30 minutes ago). But I need to create a new main.zip for testing. Then I think I am going to call it a night.

pjkaufman on Dec 12, 2023

Thanks for the tip! It immediately revealed that paragraph-blank-lines is the culprit.

Now that I am thinking a little harder about this, I can probably fix this by doing some tinkering to some logic.

pjkaufman on Dec 12, 2023

@pjkaufman I can confirm: “Re-Index footnotes” moves footnote to bottom without “Move Footnotes to the bottom” enabled.

It also doesn’t do this cleanly: The link in my footnote which is getting moved to the bottom is getting replaced by the last [link](addr)-formatted link in my document. It is also causing the last item in a list to be moved to the next header below for some reason. “214 added, 242 removed”. My guess that’s a side effect of the original error?

I have had to disable “Re-Index footnotes” because of this.

redactedscribe on Nov 1, 2023

Also, @shkarlsson , why is there content after the footnote reference? To me that seems wrong logically, but I could be wrong on that.

I wrote a PM in which I put my name and title after a “—” and exported to PDF. It looked very weird having the footnotes under that. 😃

shkarlsson on Sep 28, 2023