default text not loaded when using direct URL note creation

[fmichonneau]

If there is content in the ./public/default.md file, creating a new note by clicking on the "New" button in the navigation bar correctly creates a new note pre-filled with the content of the default file. However, when creating a new note by directly accessing a URL (using CMD_ALLOW_FREEURL=true), the note is blank and doesn't contain the default content.

[jackycute]

Hi @fmichonneau,
Thanks for reporting to us.

I traced the code and found that the free url actually finds the corresponding docs file in the public path (like /test will find /public/docs/test.md) and tries to put the content from the file.
Since the file doesn't exist in this case, it didn't catch it and ignore to get the content from default md. I think this might be a bug.
See code here:
https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/blob/develop/lib/models/note.js#L100

[jackycute]

Fixed by #1674