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spurious warnings about question or exclamation marks in a header

See original GitHub issue

a header like this one:

# Why?

produces a MD026 warning about trailing punctutation in the header. the same happens when an exclamation mark is used.

this should not happen.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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DavidAnsoncommented, May 6, 2017

Fair enough. 😃 For what it’s worth, this rule came from the Ruby implementation. I’ll admit it’s not my absolute favorite rule, but I think it’s a good guideline in general, it’s easy to turn off if you don’t want it, and it’s easy to customize when needed. I’m not inclined to break compatibility with the Ruby implementation over something like this, so unless you find that the rule is behaving wrongly, I will recommend turning it off. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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DavidAnsoncommented, May 5, 2017

What do you think is wrong here?

The documentation for MD026 explicitly calls out that it will trigger for ? and !: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/master/doc/Rules.md#md026---trailing-punctuation-in-header

If you do not like this rule, it can be disabled completely - or you can edit the list of characters it looks for (again, see documentation above).

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