From a4777c79f37a179047c5ee4eb11406ba47c514b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ActiveState <unknown>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:55:30 +1100
Subject: Bug [#1766]. Treat line starts consistently to always highlight *foo*
 or similar at line start.

---
 doc/ScintillaHistory.html | 4 ++++
 lexers/LexMarkdown.cxx    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/ScintillaHistory.html b/doc/ScintillaHistory.html
index f338b4a93..6ea38bc7d 100644
--- a/doc/ScintillaHistory.html
+++ b/doc/ScintillaHistory.html
@@ -512,6 +512,10 @@
 	<a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/1765/">Bug #1765</a>.
 	</li>
 	<li>
+	Markdown lexer treats line starts consistently to always highlight *foo* or similar at line start.
+	<a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/1766/">Bug #1766</a>.
+	</li>
+	<li>
 	Optimise marker redrawing by only drawing affected lines when markers shown in the text.
 	</li>
 	<li>
diff --git a/lexers/LexMarkdown.cxx b/lexers/LexMarkdown.cxx
index 781f85deb..a1a50f20e 100644
--- a/lexers/LexMarkdown.cxx
+++ b/lexers/LexMarkdown.cxx
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static bool HasPrevLineContent(StyleContext &sc) {
 }
 
 static bool AtTermStart(StyleContext &sc) {
-    return sc.currentPos == 0 || isspacechar(sc.chPrev);
+    return sc.currentPos == 0 || sc.chPrev == 0 || isspacechar(sc.chPrev);
 }
 
 static bool IsValidHrule(const Sci_PositionU endPos, StyleContext &sc) {
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