The Chat window does not interpret Markdown headers, such as ### Hello, which are rendered as headers in topics but appear as plain text, e.g., ###, in chat messages. According to joffreyjaffeux, this is intentional, as titles are not considered necessary in chat messages. However, 37Rb pointed out that this can be an issue when using the Chatbot plugin, which sends raw post content, including headers, to the LLM. joffreyjaffeux later announced that support for Markdown headers in chat is now available, as seen in this commit.
The Chat window seems to interpret most markdown such as bold, italics, tables, lists, etc… but it doesn’t interpret headers. For example, if I post the following
### Hello
This is a test.
in a both topic and in a chat, it will render as a header in the topic but in the chat it will show the ### as 3 pound signs.
Is this intentional? Or a possible issue?
Hi, yes it’s intentional (we don’t think titles make sense in chat messages). You could make a feature request if you think that’s necessary.
Got it. Makes sense. I’m not sure if it’s necessary but it comes up when the Chatbot plugin is used in Chat. It sends raw post content from topics to the LLM and the LLM sends back markdown in the reply, sometimes including markdown headers. I wouldn’t normally type a header in a chat but the LLM does.
This is now supported in chat:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/279fc846db1057dc9e3ee1674e3d909db1ee814a