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Thanks for the comments @mmqmzk . Unfortunately fzf-tab is a bit too much for me. I don't want to replace tab-completion everywhere! Hopefully this is useful for other people though.

@volker-fr With that workaround, I still need to type in a double $. Is there no way to totally ignore the math part of vimwiki? I rarely use it anyway....

I was trying to write a list that included prices, so I revisited this issue. It's extremely frustrating! One (unsatisfying) workaround is to use one of the [alternative dollar glyphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Encoding)...

Thanks @n0tHappy! Good find! That works pretty well, although mine was slightly different. Firstly, my original file and the [current version](https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/blob/master/syntax/vimwiki_default.vim#L16) don't have a `"` near the end of the...

> And you can use `$_`, like > > ``` > let s:default_syntax.rxEqIn = '\$_[^\$_`]\+\$_' > let s:default_syntax.char_eqin = '\$_' > ``` Huh, I actually thought this should fail, because...

@n0tHappy Hm… That does seem to work for me too. I've deleted the test that failed, so I can't replicate it. FWIW `$_foo$bar$_` also fails, and is displayed as italics/emphasis...

That works, but the `[^$]` part is because the regex is greedy. So this will fail with multiple tags on a single line, e.g. `$_foo$_ and $_bar$_`, where it will...

> Closing

Thanks @tinmarino. For me markdown is still broken. If I type in `\$1 \$2`, vim shows `\1 \2`. For vimwiki syntax, vim displays it fine as `\$1 \$2`, but when...

Thanks @tinmarino. While you are working on this, I might just reiterate that IMO `$` is too common to use for math highlights. I think it should be something less...