fix: Remove no longer required unescaping, closes #5555

server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import {
   getCurrentTimeAsString,
   unicodeCLDRtoBCP47,
 } from "@shared/utils/date";
-import unescape from "@shared/utils/unescape";
 import { parser, schema } from "@server/editor";
 import { trace } from "@server/logging/tracing";
 import type Document from "@server/models/Document";
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ export default class DocumentHelper {
    * @returns The document title and content as a Markdown string
    */
   static toMarkdown(document: Document | Revision) {
-    const text = unescape(document.text);
+    const text = document.text.replace(/\n\\\n/g, "\n\n");
 
     if (document.version) {
       return `# ${document.title}\n\n${text}`;

server/models/helpers/SearchHelper.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { find, map } from "lodash";
 import queryParser from "pg-tsquery";
 import { Op, QueryTypes, WhereOptions } from "sequelize";
 import { DateFilter } from "@shared/types";
-import unescape from "@shared/utils/unescape";
 import { sequelize } from "@server/database/sequelize";
 import Collection from "@server/models/Collection";
 import Document from "@server/models/Document";
@@ -410,7 +409,7 @@ export default class SearchHelper {
     return {
       results: map(results, (result) => ({
         ranking: result.searchRanking,
-        context: removeMarkdown(unescape(result.searchContext), {
+        context: removeMarkdown(result.searchContext, {
           stripHTML: false,
         }),
         document: find(documents, {

shared/utils/parseTitle.test.ts

@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@ it("should trim the title", () => {
 it("should extract first title", () => {
   expect(parseTitle(`# Title one\n# Title two`).title).toBe("Title one");
 });
-it("should remove escape characters", () => {
-  expect(parseTitle(`# Thing \\- one`).title).toBe("Thing - one");
-  expect(parseTitle(`# \\[wip\\] Title`).title).toBe("[wip] Title");
-  expect(parseTitle(`# \\> Title`).title).toBe("> Title");
-});
 it("should parse emoji if first character", () => {
   const parsed = parseTitle(`# 😀 Title`);
   expect(parsed.title).toBe("😀 Title");

shared/utils/parseTitle.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 import emojiRegex from "emoji-regex";
-import unescape from "./unescape";
 
 export default function parseTitle(text = "") {
   const regex = emojiRegex();
 
   // find and extract title
   const firstLine = text.trim().split(/\r?\n/)[0];
-  const trimmedTitle = firstLine.replace(/^#/, "").trim();
-
-  // remove any escape characters
-  const title = unescape(trimmedTitle);
+  const title = firstLine.replace(/^#/, "").trim();
 
   // find and extract first emoji
   const matches = regex.exec(title);

shared/utils/unescape.ts

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-const unescape = (text: string) =>
-  text.replace(/\\([\\`*{}[\]()#+\-.!_>])/g, "$1").replace(/\n\\\n/g, "\n\n");
-
-export default unescape;