Inline fields midway through a paragraph?

[zsviczian]

If I write a quotation mark (" or ') in front of a word mid-way through a paragraph DataView will treat the next part of the paragraph until a double colon (::) as a field. This is a very useful feature... however I am curious: is this a feature or a bug? If I build on this, will I regret it later when the bug is resolved?

[blacksmithgu]

This behavior isn't exactly intended, but it's unlikely to change; what's happening is that the full-line parser for metadata stops when it sees indentation / punctuation, so it reads "parent", then sees the quote and stops.

[zsviczian]

A related question - actually the trigger for stumbling upon the above behavior.

I noticed that you are indexing code blocks as well.

Excalidraw Obsidian stores the text from text elements in markdown paragraphs tagged with a ^block-reference that matches the elementId in the Excalidraw JSON descriptor. I do this, because this way text on the drawing can easily be referenced in other documents, and because this way wiki links in the text elements are updated by Obsidian automatically. Also as a consequence of this setup I am able to add dataview fields to Excalidraw drawings by simply creating text elements on the canvas that contain the dataview field-name and value. But, these fields will be picked up by dataview multiple times, because they are represented in the excalidraw file multiple times: once in the markdown paragraph and then multiple times in the JSON descriptor.

After this long intro... have you thought about adding a switch to omit code blocks from indexing?