Issue when delimiter's only inserted as text

• Markwon version: 4.3.1 See below things i am getting null when inserted # or * only in the text

input ‘#’ -> this should come as output # -> What i am getting is blank input ‘##’ -> this should come as output ## -> What i am getting is blank input ‘###’ -> this should come as output ### -> What i am getting is blank input ‘*’ -> this should come as output * -> What i am getting is blank input ‘1.’ -> this should come as output 1. -> What i am getting is blank input ‘>’ -> this should come as output > -> What i am getting is blank

This cases coming when user wants to just add * into text he doesn’t want to do bullet. Same thing for heading span.

is there any way i can handle this cases ?

[noties]

Well, unfortunately this is works-as-inteded kind of thing. This library is based on commonmark specification with commonmark-java as parser implementation. And while I think that non-finished markdown sentences must not be turned into half-parsed results (which you see). This is how it is.

There was an issue here which I cannot find now. We have addressed this by checking if parsed markdown is empty and if it is -> raw markdown was used:

final String input = /*markdown input*/;
final Spanned spanned = markwon.toMarkdown(input);
// or maybe `TextUtils.getTrimmedLength(spanned) == 0` in your case
if (TextUtils.isEmpty(spanned)) {
    textView.setText(input);
} else {
    markwon.setParsedMarkdown(textView, spanned);
}

[noties]

This would be a bit problematic due to the stateless nature of parsing/rendering (and you have to memorize original markdown input). This seems like a reasonable default though, so maybe adding another setMarkdown method (with explicit fallbackToRawIfEmpty method argument) would be a better option