False positive in Microsoft.Spacing rule

[bdovaz]

In the technical documentation for the team, we have links in markdown such as:

[My.Project](My.Project.csproj)

And errors such as the following appear:

 8:28   error  'o.L' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 8:36   error  'e.S' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 8:43   error  'r.A' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 17:17  error  'o.L' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 17:25  error  'e.S' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 17:32  error  'r.A' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 31:9   error  'o.L' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 31:17  error  'e.S' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing 
 31:24  error  'r.N' should have one space.    Microsoft.Spacing

Options:

• Do not apply the rule to links?
• Detect that if there is only one word between the dots and in that case don't apply the rule? I suppose this option will be more difficult because I think the rules are executed with regex, and I don't know if it's possible with regex to match this.

[jdkato]

I don’t think this is a false positive.

The rule is being applied to the link’s text, not its URL (which is an important distinction), and you’re violating the rule in that text.

If you were to write [`My.Project`](My.Project.csproj), for instance, the alerts would go away.

If this is uncommon, you can selectively disable it. Otherwise, you’ll probably want to disable it entirely.