From e357d53d55c90737e2f67135329aee616b5d3d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 10:20:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix backslash escaping in chat messages with hard breaks
 (#511)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 desktop/src/features/messages/lib/useRichTextEditor.ts | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/desktop/src/features/messages/lib/useRichTextEditor.ts b/desktop/src/features/messages/lib/useRichTextEditor.ts
index 4c2324748..6b2ae945b 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/messages/lib/useRichTextEditor.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/features/messages/lib/useRichTextEditor.ts
@@ -370,7 +370,12 @@ function getMarkdownFromEditor(editor: Editor): string {
     | { getMarkdown?: () => string }
     | undefined;
   if (storage?.getMarkdown) {
-    return storage.getMarkdown();
+    let md = storage.getMarkdown();
+    // tiptap-markdown serializes hard breaks as "\" + newline (CommonMark hard
+    // line break syntax). Chat messages are plain text, not rendered markdown,
+    // so strip the backslashes to keep clean newlines.
+    md = md.replace(/\\\n/g, "\n");
+    return md;
   }
   // Fallback: plain text
   return editor.state.doc.textContent;