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Problem

Windows paths written in plain message text lose the backslash before punctuation. C:\Users\me\.t3\userdata renders as C:\Users\me.t3\userdata, and C:\dev\repo\.scratch as C:\dev\repo.scratch. CommonMark reads \., \_, \*, and so on as escapes. This affects user and assistant messages on web, desktop, and mobile. Agents on Windows print paths like these all the time. The copied text is correct; only the rendered text is wrong.

#12615 fixed the same problem for link and image destinations. Paths in prose were still affected.

Repro, on Windows 11 desktop app, current main: send a message containing C:\Users\me\.t3\userdata without backticks, or have an agent print one. The rendered message shows C:\Users\me.t3\userdata.

Change

  • Web (ChatMarkdown.tsx): remarkKeepWindowsPathDestinations is renamed to remarkKeepWindowsPaths and gets a characterEscape exit handler. When the text before an escape ends in an unfinished drive path (C: followed by no whitespace), the handler puts the backslash back. Escapes outside paths still work (\*this\* renders as *this*), and code spans are unchanged because they never contain escapes.
  • Mobile (nativeMarkdownWithAuthoredWindowsPaths): the existing source-to-parsed path map also collects drive paths from prose and restores them in text nodes. It keeps the same rule as before: a parsed path that two different source paths could have produced stays as parsed.

UNC paths in prose (\\server\share) are out of scope. Their leading \\ is itself an escape, so the parser can't tell them apart from an escaped backslash.

Scope and approval

Small, focused fix for an obvious rendering bug. It's a direct follow-up to #12615 and uses the same mechanism on each client, so no prior issue or discussion was needed.

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  • apps/web: new ChatMarkdown Windows paths test. It fails without the handler and passes with it. ChatMarkdown.test.tsx: 52/52 pass.

  • apps/mobile: new prose case in nativeMarkdownText.test.ts: 62/62 pass.

  • tsc --noEmit is clean for apps/web and apps/mobile. Lint has no new warnings.

  • Not checked: no mobile device run. The mobile test uses hand-built md4c nodes, like the existing fix(markdown): keep Windows paths intact in link and image destinations #12615 tests.

  • Manual, web dev server on Windows: I sent a user message with three Windows paths, rendered it with the old ChatMarkdown.tsx and with the fix, and took both screenshots of the same message.

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Done with Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) in Claude Code via T3 Code.

CommonMark reads the `\.` in `C:\Users\me\.t3` as an escape, so prose
paths in chat messages lost the separator before dot-prefixed folders.
pingdotgg#12615 fixed link and image destinations; this covers drive paths in text
on web and mobile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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const text = parent && "children" in parent ? parent.children.at(-1) : undefined;
if (text?.type !== "text") return;
const before = text.value.slice(0, -1);
if (WINDOWS_DRIVE_PATH_TAIL_REGEX.test(before)) {

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🟡 Medium components/ChatMarkdown.tsx:664

keepWindowsPathEscape fails to restore the separator in paths containing spaces, such as C:\Users\Jane Doe\.config, so the rendered text becomes C:\Users\Jane Doe.config. WINDOWS_DRIVE_PATH_TAIL_REGEX uses \S*, which cannot match the space before the escaped component; update the path matcher to accept spaces (and other valid Windows filename characters) in the path tail.

Also found in 3 other location(s)

apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts:554

WINDOWS_PROSE_PATH_PATTERN excludes an unescaped backtick while restoring parsed text, although the source-side alternative accepts \`` and MARKDOWN_ESCAPE_PATTERNremoves that separator. Thus a valid drive path such asC:\work`file.txtis recorded asC:\work`file.txt-&gt;C:\workfile.txt, but the text-node replacement stops before the backtick and never finds that map key; the rendered mobile path still loses the separator.

apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts:524

WINDOWS_PROSE_PATH_PATTERN stops at whitespace, so it never records or restores an otherwise valid path whose component contains a space. For C:\Users\Jane Doe\.config, the source scan records only C:\Users\Jane, while md4c produces C:\Users\Jane Doe.config; the replacement cannot match the full map key and the rendered mobile message still drops the backslash before .config.

apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts:524

The mobile prose matcher also rejects parentheses even though they are valid Windows filename characters. With C:\repo (old)\.config, both source collection and text replacement stop at (, so no map entry exists for the parsed C:\repo (old).config and the new prose handling leaves its escaped separator removed.

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In file @apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx around line 664:

`keepWindowsPathEscape` fails to restore the separator in paths containing spaces, such as `C:\Users\Jane Doe\.config`, so the rendered text becomes `C:\Users\Jane Doe.config`. `WINDOWS_DRIVE_PATH_TAIL_REGEX` uses `\S*`, which cannot match the space before the escaped component; update the path matcher to accept spaces (and other valid Windows filename characters) in the path tail.

Also found in 3 other location(s):
- apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts:554 -- `WINDOWS_PROSE_PATH_PATTERN` excludes an unescaped backtick while restoring parsed text, although the source-side alternative accepts `\`` and `MARKDOWN_ESCAPE_PATTERN` removes that separator. Thus a valid drive path such as `C:\work\`file.txt` is recorded as `C:\work\`file.txt` -> `C:\work`file.txt`, but the text-node replacement stops before the backtick and never finds that map key; the rendered mobile path still loses the separator.
- apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts:524 -- `WINDOWS_PROSE_PATH_PATTERN` stops at whitespace, so it never records or restores an otherwise valid path whose component contains a space. For `C:\Users\Jane Doe\.config`, the source scan records only `C:\Users\Jane`, while md4c produces `C:\Users\Jane Doe.config`; the replacement cannot match the full map key and the rendered mobile message still drops the backslash before `.config`.
- apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts:524 -- The mobile prose matcher also rejects parentheses even though they are valid Windows filename characters. With `C:\repo (old)\.config`, both source collection and text replacement stop at `(`, so no map entry exists for the parsed `C:\repo (old).config` and the new prose handling leaves its escaped separator removed.

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Partly fixed in 4ed7b7a: the mobile pattern no longer stops at parentheses, and a test covers C:\folder\(draft.

Not changing the whitespace boundary (Jane Doe, repo (old)), on web or mobile. In plain text the parser cannot tell where a path with spaces ends. Allowing spaces would turn real escapes in normal sentences into backslashes, e.g. see C:\x and \*this\* would render \*this\*. Stopping at whitespace keeps the fix safe for every message, and paths with spaces still render correctly inside backticks.

Not handling backtick filenames (C:\work\`file.txt) either. Accepting a backtick in the path would swallow code-span delimiters next to a path, and such filenames are unrealistic.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused Markdown rendering bug fix with limited runtime scope, targeted web and mobile tests, and no schema, infrastructure, security, billing, or default-setting changes. Separate Medium-severity correctness findings identify edge cases in code content and paths containing spaces or punctuation, so those issues remain relevant to final merge clearance.

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Mobile and web Markdown processing now preserve authored Windows drive-path backslashes in prose. Mobile processing restores matching paths in text nodes and href values. Web processing extends its remark handling to prose paths. Tests cover escaped punctuation and emphasis.

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Windows Path Preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Restore paths in mobile Markdown
apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/nativeMarkdownText.test.ts
Mobile processing maps authored Windows paths to parsed paths and restores matching text-node content and href values. It skips inline and block code nodes. Tests cover prose paths and escaped asterisks.
Preserve paths in web Markdown
apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx
The remark extension preserves Windows paths in prose and destinations in both plugin configurations. Tests cover paths with underscores and parentheses, and escaped emphasis.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ed7b

A narrow mobile Markdown case can still render a prose path without its authored backslash when a matching path appears in code. This is a bounded display issue; address it before merging or accept the limitation.

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stopping at a parenthesis that belongs to a mapped path, so authored paths with
escaped parentheses restore their backslash; add a test covering an escaped
parenthesis in a prose path.

Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx:
- Line 657: Update WINDOWS_DRIVE_PATH_TAIL_REGEX to recognize either slash
direction after a drive letter, consistent with WINDOWS_DRIVE_PATH_REGEX, so
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Mobile now restores paths whose escaped component is a parenthesis and
never touches code nodes. Web recognizes `C:/` drive prefixes too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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