This suggestion is related to Escaping double colon "::" in cloze deletion cards There’s a conflict whenever either double colons or double curly-brackets are enclosed within a cloze field, or when one (or more) thereof are at the edge of the field, whether inside or outside. Adding zero-width spa…

Zero width space is a perfect way to confuse users. “Why is my cloze card not working?”, “I encountered a weird bug after the latest update where typing the cloze syntax manually no longer works”, “My really complicated template suddenly stopped working!”, etc. I agree that there should be a more i…

True, manual typing of the enclosing (as well as importation) would be an issue. What sort of (complicated) templates are you referring to?

[image] Nezmaka: Adding zero-width space circumvents the problem, but it is quite tedious to do even for a single card, to say nothing of doing it repeatedly if it so happens that one’s use case requires it. Find and Replace

Hey, I know about the find and replace functionality. I don’t see how it would be of help, however.

[image] Nezmaka: What sort of (complicated) templates are you referring to? I have no idea, someone somewhere somehow might have relied on the current syntax in their templates. (If that’s not possible, then maybe an addon)

[image] Nezmaka: There’s a conflict whenever either double colons or double curly-brackets are enclosed within a cloze field, or when one (or more) thereof are at the edge of the field, whether inside or outside. Can you give more details about your use case? Perhaps there’s a better way to m…

[image] Nezmaka: What sort of (complicated) templates are you referring to? Some might use raw cloze expressions and parse them in card scripts directly to present the data in a desired way. [image] ZornHadNoChoice: (If that’s not possible, then maybe an addon) Can confirm that. One o…

[image] Nezmaka: I don’t see how it would be of help, however. Maybe using a more easily typed way of escaping the colons and brackets, e.g. \:\:, when making cards and then using the find-and-replace to convert all of them into using zero-width space, would work for you? Alternatively, the …

This topic might help: Adding sample cloze strings to Back, without generating cards .

Padding cloze-bracketing with zero-width spaces

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Danika_Dakika July 25, 2025, 10:54pm 7

Can you give more details about your use case? Perhaps there’s a better way to make this work for you besides making it untype-able for everyone else?

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Padding cloze-bracketing with zero-width spaces

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