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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 2, 2017, 07:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20170302073708.dxm4p24pt6zlqjuz@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170302073421.GA2528@whir>

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 07:34:21AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > 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).

OK. I guess my question more was "why are you doing that?". I'd expect people to find the GFM rendering on GitHub, or just look at the text via "less".

But it's not really my business why you would want to do it. :) It's reasonable for us to cater to the common subset of renderers.

-Peff