MacDownApp/macdown

Crashes on <pre> tag

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#996 opened on Jul 6, 2018

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Description

Take this line for instance > Hello world Now try editing it to > Hello <pre>world</pre>

MacDown crashes the moment I type > after <pre

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Research direction
Investigate the crash when a blockquote contains a <pre> tag. Focus on the Markdown rendering path, especially how HTML tags are parsed and displayed. Look for nil pointer dereferences or incorrect handling of nested tags.
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objective c
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desktop
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2
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