Hide the content of inline configuration HTML comments from the linting process to avoid false positives.

demo/markdownlint-browser.js

@@ -174,16 +174,10 @@ module.exports.clearHtmlCommentText = function clearHtmlCommentText(text) {
                         !content.endsWith("-") && !content.includes("--"));
                 // If a valid block/inline comment...
                 if (isValid) {
-                    const inlineCommentIndex = text
-                        .slice(i, j + htmlCommentEnd.length)
-                        .search(inlineCommentStartRe);
-                    // If not a markdownlint inline directive...
-                    if (inlineCommentIndex !== 0) {
-                        text =
-                            text.slice(0, i + htmlCommentBegin.length) +
-                                content.replace(/[^\r\n]/g, ".") +
-                                text.slice(j);
-                    }
+                    text =
+                        text.slice(0, i + htmlCommentBegin.length) +
+                            content.replace(/[^\r\n]/g, ".") +
+                            text.slice(j);
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -1701,15 +1695,16 @@ function lintContent(ruleList, name, content, md, config, frontMatter, handleRul
     content = content.replace(/^\uFEFF/, "");
     // Remove front matter
     const removeFrontMatterResult = removeFrontMatter(content, frontMatter);
-    const frontMatterLines = removeFrontMatterResult.frontMatterLines;
-    // Ignore the content of HTML comments
-    content = helpers.clearHtmlCommentText(removeFrontMatterResult.content);
+    const { frontMatterLines } = removeFrontMatterResult;
+    content = removeFrontMatterResult.content;
+    // Get enabled rules per line (with HTML comments present)
+    const { effectiveConfig, enabledRulesPerLineNumber } = getEnabledRulesPerLineNumber(ruleList, content.split(helpers.newLineRe), frontMatterLines, noInlineConfig, config, mapAliasToRuleNames(ruleList));
+    // Hide the content of HTML comments from rules, etc.
+    content = helpers.clearHtmlCommentText(content);
     // Parse content into tokens and lines
     const tokens = md.parse(content, {});
     const lines = content.split(helpers.newLineRe);
     annotateTokens(tokens, lines);
-    const aliasToRuleNames = mapAliasToRuleNames(ruleList);
-    const { effectiveConfig, enabledRulesPerLineNumber } = getEnabledRulesPerLineNumber(ruleList, lines, frontMatterLines, noInlineConfig, config, aliasToRuleNames);
     // Create parameters for rules
     const paramsBase = helpers.deepFreeze({
         name,

helpers/helpers.js

@@ -161,16 +161,10 @@ module.exports.clearHtmlCommentText = function clearHtmlCommentText(text) {
            !content.endsWith("-") && !content.includes("--"));
         // If a valid block/inline comment...
         if (isValid) {
-          const inlineCommentIndex = text
-            .slice(i, j + htmlCommentEnd.length)
-            .search(inlineCommentStartRe);
-          // If not a markdownlint inline directive...
-          if (inlineCommentIndex !== 0) {
-            text =
-              text.slice(0, i + htmlCommentBegin.length) +
-              content.replace(/[^\r\n]/g, ".") +
-              text.slice(j);
-          }
+          text =
+            text.slice(0, i + htmlCommentBegin.length) +
+            content.replace(/[^\r\n]/g, ".") +
+            text.slice(j);
         }
       }
     }

lib/markdownlint.js

@@ -474,23 +474,24 @@ function lintContent(
   content = content.replace(/^\uFEFF/, "");
   // Remove front matter
   const removeFrontMatterResult = removeFrontMatter(content, frontMatter);
-  const frontMatterLines = removeFrontMatterResult.frontMatterLines;
-  // Ignore the content of HTML comments
-  content = helpers.clearHtmlCommentText(removeFrontMatterResult.content);
+  const { frontMatterLines } = removeFrontMatterResult;
+  content = removeFrontMatterResult.content;
+  // Get enabled rules per line (with HTML comments present)
+  const { effectiveConfig, enabledRulesPerLineNumber } =
+    getEnabledRulesPerLineNumber(
+      ruleList,
+      content.split(helpers.newLineRe),
+      frontMatterLines,
+      noInlineConfig,
+      config,
+      mapAliasToRuleNames(ruleList)
+    );
+  // Hide the content of HTML comments from rules, etc.
+  content = helpers.clearHtmlCommentText(content);
   // Parse content into tokens and lines
   const tokens = md.parse(content, {});
   const lines = content.split(helpers.newLineRe);
   annotateTokens(tokens, lines);
-  const aliasToRuleNames = mapAliasToRuleNames(ruleList);
-  const { effectiveConfig, enabledRulesPerLineNumber } =
-    getEnabledRulesPerLineNumber(
-      ruleList,
-      lines,
-      frontMatterLines,
-      noInlineConfig,
-      config,
-      aliasToRuleNames
-    );
   // Create parameters for rules
   const paramsBase = helpers.deepFreeze({
     name,

test/inline-configure-file-violations.md

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Inline Configure File Violations
+
+Emphasis * with * spaces {MD037}
+
+Trailing spaces:    
+
+<!-- markdownlint-configure-file {
+  "comment": "emphasis * with * spaces",
+  "no-trailing-spaces": false
+} -->

test/markdownlint-test-helpers.js

@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ test("clearHtmlCommentTextEmbedded", (t) => {
   ];
   const embeddedResult = [
     "text<!--....-->text",
-    "<!-- markdownlint-disable MD010 -->",
+    "<!--............................-->",
     "text<!--....-->text",
-    "text<!-- markdownlint-disable MD010 -->text",
+    "text<!--............................-->text",
     "text<!--....-->text"
   ];
   const actual = helpers.clearHtmlCommentText(embeddedComments.join("\n"));

test/snapshots/markdownlint-test-scenarios.js.md

@@ -17397,6 +17397,46 @@ Generated by [AVA](https://avajs.dev).
       `,
     }
 
+## inline-configure-file-violations.md
+
+> Snapshot 1
+
+    {
+      errors: [
+        {
+          errorContext: '* with *',
+          errorDetail: null,
+          errorRange: [
+            10,
+            8,
+          ],
+          fixInfo: {
+            deleteCount: 8,
+            editColumn: 10,
+            insertText: '*with*',
+          },
+          lineNumber: 3,
+          ruleDescription: 'Spaces inside emphasis markers',
+          ruleInformation: 'https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/v0.0.0/doc/Rules.md#md037',
+          ruleNames: [
+            'MD037',
+            'no-space-in-emphasis',
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+      fixed: `# Inline Configure File Violations␊
+      ␊
+      Emphasis *with* spaces {MD037}␊
+      ␊
+      Trailing spaces:    ␊
+      ␊
+      <!-- markdownlint-configure-file {␊
+        "comment": "emphasis * with * spaces",␊
+        "no-trailing-spaces": false␊
+      } -->␊
+      `,
+    }
+
 ## inline-disable-enable-file.md
 
 > Snapshot 1