Re: [PATCH] README: create HTTP/HTTPS links from URLs in Markdown

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Mar 2, 2017, 07:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20170302073421.GA2528@whir>
In-Reply-To: <20170302071810.pbczh3p4w4bnyqzg@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:22:04PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > Markdown supports automatic links by surrounding URLs with
> > angle brackets, as documented in
> > <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink>
> 
> One of the joys of markdown is that there are so many variants. A lot of
> them (including GitHub-flavored markdown) will linkify URLs even when
> they're not inside angle brackets.
> 
> So I don't mind this patch, but I'm curious what's rendering the
> markdown you're seeing. I'd think online that one would either come
> across the raw text, or the GFM from https://github.com/git/git.

I was using Gruber's reference implementation from Debian stable (1.0.1-7).

Also, pandoc (also Debian stable 1.12.4.2~dfsg-1+b14) seems to require angle brackets by default. pandoc also supports the "-f markdown_github" option where it seems to behave like GFM.

But yeah, I much prefer the unambiguity of angle brackets, especially when URLs are followed immediately but punctuation such as ',' or '.'.