Automattic/simplenote-electron

Multiple References to the Same Footnote Results in Duplicate Footnotes

thabotswana opened this issue · 0 comments

thabotswana commented

Expected

When referencing the same footnote more than once, both references should point to the same footnote.

Observed

When referencing the same footnote more than once, a duplicate footnote is created. Reported here: https://forums.simplenote.com/forums/topic/multiple-references-to-the-same-footnote-results-in-duplicate-footnotes/?view=all#post-2826

Reproduced

I can reproduce this with the following steps:

  1. Open a note
  2. Add text with Markdown formatting for footnotes (e.g [^1], [^2])
  3. Publish note
  4. View the published note

Screen recording

Screen.Recording.2024-07-11.at.10.51.51.mov

Where did you see the bug

  • Device: MacBook Pro 2021
  • OS: macOS
  • OS version: 14.5
  • Browser (if applicable): Chrome
  • Browser version (if applicable): 126.0.6478.127
  • Simplenote app version: 2.21.0