Properly turn off markdown keydown listener

 for specific text area

app/assets/javascripts/lib/utils/text_markdown.js

@@ -332,13 +332,12 @@ export function keypressNoteText(e) {
       select: '',
       tagContent: '',
     });
-
   }
 }
 /* eslint-enable @gitlab/require-i18n-strings */
 
 export function addMarkdownListeners(form) {
-  $('.markdown-area').on('keydown', keypressNoteText);
+  $('.markdown-area', form).on('keydown', keypressNoteText);
   return $('.js-md', form)
     .off('click')
     .on('click', function() {
@@ -377,6 +376,6 @@ export function addEditorMarkdownListeners(editor) {
 }
 
 export function removeMarkdownListeners(form) {
-  $('.markdown-area').off('keydown');
+  $('.markdown-area', form).off('keydown', keypressNoteText);
   return $('.js-md', form).off('click');
 }

changelogs/unreleased/bw-surround-text-wth-char.yml

 ---
 title: Surround selected text in markdown fields on certain key presses
-merge_request: 25748
+merge_request: 37151
 author:
 type: added

spec/features/projects/wiki/markdown_preview_spec.rb

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ RSpec.describe 'Projects > Wiki > User previews markdown changes', :js do
   let(:wiki_page) { create(:wiki_page, wiki: project.wiki, title: 'home', content: '[some link](other-page)') }
   let(:wiki_content) do
     <<-HEREDOC
+Some text so key event for [ does not trigger an incorrect replacement.
 [regular link](regular)
 [relative link 1](../relative)
 [relative link 2](./relative)