From e26ba3857c381efa334ca0030aa7845a2a79d3e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mouse Reeve <mousereeve@riseup.net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 16:13:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Only modify pound symbols at the start of a word

---
 bookwyrm/views/status.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bookwyrm/views/status.py b/bookwyrm/views/status.py
index cd13af527..a331413c4 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/views/status.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/views/status.py
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ def _wrapped(text):
 def to_markdown(content):
     """catch links and convert to markdown"""
     content = format_links(content)
-    content = content.replace("#", "\\#")
+    content = re.sub(r"\B#", "\\#", content)
     content = markdown(content)
     # sanitize resulting html
     sanitizer = InputHtmlParser()