From d025da5da9b6b6bf3c0003191f07a8184e545f8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hmhealey <harrisonmhealey@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:28:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Changed hashtag regex to only accept hashtags that begin with
 a letter

---
 web/react/utils/text_formatting.jsx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/web/react/utils/text_formatting.jsx b/web/react/utils/text_formatting.jsx
index 940bd04855..089fdd4f92 100644
--- a/web/react/utils/text_formatting.jsx
+++ b/web/react/utils/text_formatting.jsx
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ function autolinkHashtags(text, tokens) {
         return prefix + alias;
     }
 
-    return output.replace(/(^|\W)(#[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]+)\b/g, replaceHashtagWithToken);
+    return output.replace(/(^|\W)(#[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]*)\b/g, replaceHashtagWithToken);
 }
 
 function highlightSearchTerm(text, tokens, searchTerm) {