Disable inline tags

[srackham]

Is there a way to disable inline tags i.e. just use frontmatter tags? Searching tags brings up a lot of false positives in my Markdown files e.g. in URLs and inline CSS.

[neo451]

Indeed a valid issue, but I personally would like to just improve the search, instead of adding options. Will work on it.

[neo451]

#206 I quickly did some fix and opened an issue #205, feel free to try it out, see what other cases I missed @srackham

[srackham]

@neo451 : Thank you for the super-quick response, I tried the the PR and here are the results:

Platform	False Positives
obsdian.nvim without PR	59
obsdian.nvim with PR	41
Osidian v1.8.10	24

Many of the false positive were due to insufficiently indented code blocks while others were just unavoidable ambiguities (many of my notes were very old imported Markdown files). The remainder were avoidable false positives:

• Tags that are not delimited by word boundaries (see https://forum.obsidian.md/t/what-is-the-formal-syntax-surrounding-tags/12949).
• Tags in HTML entities.
• Tags in indented code blocks.
• Tags in URLs containing parentheses.

Examples:

• HTML entities: &#NOT_A_TAG;

• Not on word boundaries: foobar#NOT_A_TAG

  Indented code block: #NOT_A_TAG
  

• URLs with parentheses: autobox

[neo451]

I see, then we should both improve matching and add option to not match body. I will address the matching first :)

[srackham]

Yeah, low hanging fruit first, the hard one will be tags in indented code blocks.

[neo451]

@srackham Hi, I have move the PR a bit further, test it if you want, and take a look at the test cases. Also we can move any further discussion to the PR, so as to keep history more findable.

[srackham]

Running the :ObsidianTags after the latest changes brings up a flood of around 200 false positives, up from 59 prior to recent tag filtering (see https://github.com/orgs/obsidian-nvim/discussions/204). Things like URLs with element IDs e.g.

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/jit_language_reference.html#language-reference

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obsidian:                                                                   ✅

- ✅ OK neovim >= 0.11

obsidian.nvim [Version] ~
- ✅ OK Obsidian.nvim v3.12.0 (57ffe35f33bdd31e59eb0d65627f6f0e31776522)

obsidian.nvim [Environment] ~
- ✅ OK • operating system: Linux

obsidian.nvim [Config] ~
- ✅ OK • dir: /home/srackham/share/notes

obsidian.nvim [Pickers] ~
- ✅ OK ✓ telescope.nvim: a0bbec21143c7bc5f8bb02e0005fa0b982edc026

obsidian.nvim [Completion] ~
- ✅ OK ✓ blink.cmp: 9bcb14b43852a6f2bfd5ac9ef29cb5cf09b1b39b

obsidian.nvim [Dependencies] ~
- ✅ OK ✓ rg: 14.1.1
- ✅ OK ✓ plenary.nvim: 857c5ac632080dba10aae49dba902ce3abf91b35

[neo451]

yes, because I reverted most of the changes, as explained in #240 (comment)

[srackham]

Ok, thanks.

[neo451]

@srackham I pushed a new change to avoid tag false positives, turns out I was overthinking the issue, a pretty easy fix, see if you have more edge cases.