[GH-ISSUE #1850] MD059: Regex to avoid false flags #2607

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opened 2026-03-07 20:09:17 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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Originally created by @jen-reeve on GitHub (Nov 10, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/1850

MD059 descriptive-link-text is a touch aggressive and flagged a link because it contained the word 'where', which contains the pattern 'here'.

Full details: I've included the case where I noticed this in the attached image. The link text reads 'Tour of the git repo and where/how pages are looking for a contributor' but is still flagged for containing the word 'here'.

Originally created by @jen-reeve on GitHub (Nov 10, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/1850 [MD059](https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/main/doc/md059.md) _descriptive-link-text_ is a touch aggressive and flagged a link because it contained the word 'where', which contains the pattern 'here'. Full details: I've included the case where I noticed this in the attached image. The link text reads 'Tour of the git repo and where/how pages are looking for a contributor' but is still flagged for containing the word 'here'. <img width="1035" height="183" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/37e94f6d-958a-48b2-8f5e-28afa2ea99f9" />

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@DavidAnson commented on GitHub (Nov 10, 2025):

That message is coming from some other tool. (I'd like to think I would have spelled "accessibility" correctly.)

@DavidAnson commented on GitHub (Nov 10, 2025): That message is coming from some other tool. (I'd like to think I would have spelled "accessibility" correctly.)

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2026-03-07 20:09:18 +03:00

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@jen-reeve commented on GitHub (Nov 10, 2025):

Ah crap, I thought I dug deep enough, I'll keep digging. And yeah hadn't even read the error message that closely. My bad! Thanks for caring about accessibility

@jen-reeve commented on GitHub (Nov 10, 2025): Ah crap, I thought I dug deep enough, I'll keep digging. And yeah hadn't even read the error message that closely. My bad! Thanks for caring about *accessibility*