fix(topic): keep URLs, aliases and user IDs intact in room topics (#262)
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The topic editor's hand-rolled markdown treated any single _ or * as
emphasis, inside URLs and #alias:server / @user:server too, and built the
plain topic by stripping tags, so the underscores were lost for every
client. It also left " unescaped in link targets.

buildTopicContent() now uses the composer's inline markdown parser (links,
bare URLs and HTML escaping as for messages) and treats _ between two
letters/digits as literal (CommonMark), except inside code, link targets
and URLs. The plain topic drops the markers but keeps links as
"text (url)" and decodes entities.

Fixes #262

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017PCb59uY3UKqDqt7B6hzd5
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2026-10-19 14:11:16 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 0eccf9bea9
commit ce1354ed93
3 changed files with 136 additions and 26 deletions
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ import { settingsAtom } from '../../../state/settings';
import { AsyncStatus, useAsyncCallback } from '../../../hooks/useAsyncCallback';
import { useAlive } from '../../../hooks/useAlive';
import { RoomPermissionsAPI } from '../../../hooks/useRoomPermissions';
const MARKDOWN_PATTERN = /(\*\*|__|\*|_|~~|`|\[.+?\]\(.+?\))/;
import { buildTopicContent } from '../../../utils/topicMarkdown';
function wrapSelection(textarea: HTMLTextAreaElement, syntax: string, placeholder: string) {
const start = textarea.selectionStart;
@@ -71,30 +70,6 @@ function wrapSelection(textarea: HTMLTextAreaElement, syntax: string, placeholde
textarea.setSelectionRange(cursorStart, cursorEnd);
}
function topicMarkdownToHtml(text: string): string {
return text
.replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
.replace(/</g, '&lt;')
.replace(/>/g, '&gt;')
.replace(/\*\*(.+?)\*\*/g, '<strong>$1</strong>')
.replace(/__(.+?)__/g, '<strong>$1</strong>')
.replace(/\*(.+?)\*/g, '<em>$1</em>')
.replace(/_(.+?)_/g, '<em>$1</em>')
.replace(/~~(.+?)~~/g, '<del>$1</del>')
.replace(/`(.+?)`/g, '<code>$1</code>')
.replace(/\[(.+?)\]\((.+?)\)/g, '<a href="$2">$1</a>')
.replace(/\n/g, '<br>');
}
function buildTopicContent(topic: string): Record<string, string> {
if (!MARKDOWN_PATTERN.test(topic)) return { topic };
const formattedBody = topicMarkdownToHtml(topic);
// Use HTML-stripped text as the plain topic so the header shows clean text, not raw markdown syntax
const plainTopic = formattedBody.replace(/<br>/g, '\n').replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '');
return { topic: plainTopic, format: 'org.matrix.custom.html', formatted_body: formattedBody };
}
type RoomProfileEditProps = {
canEditAvatar: boolean;
canEditName: boolean;