Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses

> Email addresses in documentation are converted into mailto: hyperlinks
> in the HTML output and footnotes in man pages.  This isn't desirable for
> cases where the address is used as an example and is not valid.
>
> Particularly annoying is the example "jane@laptop.(none)" which appears
> in git-shortlog(1) as "jane@laptop[1].(none)", with note 1 saying:
>
> 	1. jane@laptop
> 	   mailto:jane@laptop
>
> Fix this by escaping these email addresses with a leading backslash, to
> prevent Asciidoc expanding them as inline macros.
>
> In the case of mailmap.txt, render the address monospaced so that it
> matches the block examples surrounding that paragraph.
>
> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
> ---
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 07:04:05AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>> Furthermore, the right way to suppress
>> expansion of macros is with a backslash escape.
> [snipped an example]
>> I think it's a little less ugly
>> than the "$$" quoting, but not by much. No clue if one is accepted by
>> more asciidoc versions or not.
>
> From a quick reading of the Asciidoc changelog, I think backslash
> escaping should be supported just as well as "$$" quoting, which leaves
> the minimal patch looking like this.