Dot in tags no longer working

[Rene_Molenaar]

I used dots inside of my tags, for example:

• #project.t
• #project.r

Etc. Since today, this is no longer working. I didn’t find anything in the changelog about this.

Did this behavior change? I guess I’ll have to switch to another symbol like #project-r or #project-r

[ichikawa]

I used colon ( : ) inside of my tags.
for example:
#:201006

This is also no longer working.
Is there any changelog about this ?

[Erica]

Please see these two bugs:

Mentions/tags include common punctuation

Steps to reproduce Use tags and use common punctuation for @ person name mentions, like ? or ) Observe that they show up as separate instances now for tag completion and in tags list Expected result A single @ name tag is created and recognized consistently Actual result Many tags are created for completion and in tag list Environment Chrome macOS, but non-version specific Additional information / comments It seems that including punctuation at least in some cases is by design, based on …

Trailing punctuation included in tags

Including a tag with punctuation immediately after it causes both the tag and the punctuation to be highlighted. For @example, in this sentence the highlighted portion would end up being: @example, This cosmetic detail isn’t very significant and the expected value (without the punctuation) is added to the suggested list; however, clicking on the highlighted label (to do a search) populates the find box with both the tag and the punctuation, and this is unexpected behavior. Steps to reproduce S…

@Rene_Molenaar @ichikawa: please use the search & replace option to replace the old tags, really sorry for the inconveniences! You can use - (dash) or _ (underscore). Parentheses () also work.

[Rene_Molenaar]

Thanks, I replaced my dots with dashes. Might be nice to include this in the changelog

[Kenneth_Aar]

Man this caused me some headaches. But my new set-up actually improved as a result. So
all in all a plus.

[Erica]

Yes! Will definitely include in June’s changelog. Sorry for the inconvenience!

[ichikawa]

I noticed that I can’t use colon ( : ) inside of my tags on web browser but I can use it on Dynalist app on iOS / Android and Desktop Dynalist.

Why does this happen ?
Just for no updating ?

[Alan]

I agree that “Talk to @bob. Tell him where to go.” should not include the . in the tag. But “Register @dynalist.io” would be nice to include the punctuation. Also would be nice to have #x/y do tag groups where x is a group, and y a subtag of x.

[Alex_Pasternak]

Ugh, I just realized one other major downside of this fix, PowerPack coloring is broken. So a bottom red border “#s|i|bb:tomato” is now rendered as:

This is another strong argument that maybe only trailing punctuation should’ve been ignored after all. I don’t think this is an easy fix with PowerPack syntax for stacking on attributes.

[Grant1]

I also use #topic.subtopic. mine appear to still be working for now. It seems you are reporting this issue on 9 June 2020. Is it still an issue?

[Rene_Molenaar]

That’s interesting…mine also work again. Was this rolled back?

[Kenneth_Aar]

Yeah me too only trailing punctuation don’t get treated as part of the tag.

[Rene_Molenaar]

Any insight @Erica ?

[Erica]

@Kenneth_Aar @Rene_Molenaar: we relaxed the limitation so that as long as the tag is not in the form of "#tag. " (note the same), it will work. So if you have a character after the dot, the tags will continue working.

I hope that helps!

[Rene_Molenaar]

Thanks @Erica.

Now I have to think whether I’ll replace my dashes back to dots in the tags

[mkteku]

I feel you brain-pain, brother.
I mean, brain.pain.