[GH-ISSUE #220] New Rule: Flag single item lists #189

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opened 2026-03-03 01:24:31 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @nschonni on GitHub (Sep 12, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/220

Not sure if this would be one or 2 rules. The idea being that if markdown is seeing only a single item in a list, it is likely:

Mailformed somehow and not seeing the rest of the list
A single item list, which semantically probably doesn't need to be a list, but could be ignored if intended

Originally created by @nschonni on GitHub (Sep 12, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/220 Not sure if this would be one or 2 rules. The idea being that if markdown is seeing only a single item in a list, it is likely: 1. Mailformed somehow and not seeing the rest of the list 2. A single item list, which semantically probably doesn't need to be a list, but could be ignored if intended