mdcat panics if image title is in two lines

[laoshaw]

Not quite sure if this is a mdcat bug: if I split the image line into two lines as below, run mdcat test.md under kitty will abort as shown below.

test.md

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](my.png)

run mdcat test.md it will report below errors:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Event SoftBreak impossible in state Stacked(StateStack { top_level: TopLevelAttrs { margin_before: Margin }, states: [Inline(InlineText, InlineAttrs { style: Style {}, indent: 0 })] }, RenderedImage)

put test.md above into one line it works fine.

[swsnr]

It probably is; I've never seen this before and it doesn't seem to be part of the common mark test suite, so I don't think mdcat handles this.

I'll perhaps fix this at some point but it'll take time; to me this is a weird corner case so until I actually hit a document with this it's pretty low on my priority list.

If you need to have this fixed any time soon please do open a pull request.

[laoshaw]

I agree, just add why this happens: pandoc converts html to markdown and if an image has a long line, pandoc will break it into two lines and cause mdcat to misbehave, e.g.

! [ this is a super long line whatever asdf asdfsdafsdf fsdfsdfsf sfsdf  sfsdfs sdfsfsdf
and it has to continue to next time](you-image-here)

[swsnr]

Can you please fix the formatting of your comment?

I've only skimmed it but the actual error seems to be that images don't get shown in kitty? If so that's a separate problem; please open a new issue for this.

[swsnr]

@norman-abramovitz Friendly ping. Please fix the syntax of your comment; I've hidden it meanwhile.

You might also want to run mdcat --detect-only to check what terminal mdcat assumes you have, because I presume it's wrong: mdcat has a dedicated kitty backend, and thus shouldn't attempt to print iterm commands to kitty terminals.

[norman-abramovitz]

Hi,

I was attempting to reproduce the original issue and not introduce a new issue and provide additional information that I found. I will try the detect-only option when I look at this issue again. I do have iterm2 and kitty on my mac, but I do launch them independently. Maybe some env vars getting in the way.

[swsnr]

Closing this, because it doesn't affect me.