From 33dee5f043694d4c42347aa07db49a018114c754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vycdev2 <vycdev2@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:03:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix: preserve whitespace-only code spans in Markdown
 export

---
 CHANGELOG.md                 | 1 +
 src/utils/markdown-export.ts | 7 ++++++-
 test/markdown-export.spec.ts | 9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index be570f2..0e3192c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #### Review fixes
 
+- Preserved code spans containing three or more spaces when exporting Todo files to Markdown.
 - Offered known tag-argument completions inside auto-closed parentheses without inserting a duplicate closing parenthesis.
 - Preserved punctuation immediately before a completion or elapsed-time tag when reopening a task.
 - Rejected invalid ISO calendar dates in time estimates instead of silently rolling them into another month.
diff --git a/src/utils/markdown-export.ts b/src/utils/markdown-export.ts
index 4b9b66c..1e09d35 100644
--- a/src/utils/markdown-export.ts
+++ b/src/utils/markdown-export.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ const escapeMarkdownText = (text: string): string => text.replace(/[!-/:-@[-`{-~
 const renderCodeSpan = (content: string): string => {
   if (!content) return '<code></code>';
 
-  const needsPadding = (content.startsWith(' ') || content.endsWith(' ')) && !/^ +$/.test(content),
+  // Markdown trims a space from each end of runs longer than two spaces,
+  // even when the code span contains nothing but spaces.
+  const spacesOnly = /^ +$/.test(content),
+    needsPadding = spacesOnly
+      ? content.length > 2
+      : content.startsWith(' ') || content.endsWith(' '),
     padding = needsPadding ? ' ' : '';
 
   return `\`${padding}${content}${padding}\``;
diff --git a/test/markdown-export.spec.ts b/test/markdown-export.spec.ts
index 8dce567..5fcec8f 100644
--- a/test/markdown-export.spec.ts
+++ b/test/markdown-export.spec.ts
@@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ describe('Todo Markdown export', () => {
     expect(html).to.include('<code></code> <code> </code> <code> code </code>');
   });
 
+  it('preserves code spans containing three or more spaces', () => {
+    const markdown = renderTodoMarkdown('Tasks', [
+        { kind: 'comment', level: 0, text: '`   ` `    `' },
+      ]),
+      html = new MarkdownIt({ html: true }).render(markdown);
+
+    expect(html).to.include('<code>   </code> <code>    </code>');
+  });
+
   it('preserves HTML-like text and entities in rendered Markdown', () => {
     const markdown = renderTodoMarkdown('Plan <T> &copy;', [
         { kind: 'project', level: 0, text: 'Project <T> &copy;' },

From 2c0dbe01bc8bd51c2b46f22c183a23bccbad5bf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Sandu <vyctor661@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:27:07 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix: preserve code spaces across Markdown renderers

---
 src/utils/markdown-export.ts | 13 +++++--------
 test/markdown-export.spec.ts | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/utils/markdown-export.ts b/src/utils/markdown-export.ts
index 1e09d35..4b9df72 100644
--- a/src/utils/markdown-export.ts
+++ b/src/utils/markdown-export.ts
@@ -13,14 +13,11 @@ export interface MarkdownExportLine {
 const escapeMarkdownText = (text: string): string => text.replace(/[!-/:-@[-`{-~]/g, '\\$&');
 
 const renderCodeSpan = (content: string): string => {
-  if (!content) return '<code></code>';
-
-  // Markdown trims a space from each end of runs longer than two spaces,
-  // even when the code span contains nothing but spaces.
-  const spacesOnly = /^ +$/.test(content),
-    needsPadding = spacesOnly
-      ? content.length > 2
-      : content.startsWith(' ') || content.endsWith(' '),
+  // Renderers disagree on trimming all-space code spans. Inline HTML keeps
+  // their exact content, including empty spans that backticks cannot express.
+  if (!content || /^ +$/.test(content)) return `<code>${content}</code>`;
+
+  const needsPadding = content.startsWith(' ') || content.endsWith(' '),
     padding = needsPadding ? ' ' : '';
 
   return `\`${padding}${content}${padding}\``;
diff --git a/test/markdown-export.spec.ts b/test/markdown-export.spec.ts
index 5fcec8f..a4936bf 100644
--- a/test/markdown-export.spec.ts
+++ b/test/markdown-export.spec.ts
@@ -95,13 +95,19 @@ describe('Todo Markdown export', () => {
     expect(html).to.include('<code></code> <code> </code> <code> code </code>');
   });
 
-  it('preserves code spans containing three or more spaces', () => {
-    const markdown = renderTodoMarkdown('Tasks', [
-        { kind: 'comment', level: 0, text: '`   ` `    `' },
-      ]),
-      html = new MarkdownIt({ html: true }).render(markdown);
-
-    expect(html).to.include('<code>   </code> <code>    </code>');
+  it('preserves whitespace-only code spans without renderer-specific padding', () => {
+    for (const length of [1, 2, 3, 4, 8]) {
+      const spaces = ' '.repeat(length),
+        markdown = renderTodoMarkdown('Tasks', [
+          { kind: 'comment', level: 0, text: `\`${spaces}\`` },
+        ]),
+        html = new MarkdownIt({ html: true }).render(markdown);
+
+      // CommonMark preserves all-space spans, whereas markdown-it 14.1 trims
+      // runs longer than two spaces. Inline HTML preserves both interpretations.
+      expect(markdown).to.include(`<code>${spaces}</code>`);
+      expect(html).to.include(`<code>${spaces}</code>`);
+    }
   });
 
   it('preserves HTML-like text and entities in rendered Markdown', () => {