Questions tagged [auto-linking]
Use this for questions about the automated process that turns bare Stack Exchange links in posts into formatted links.
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A bare meta URL was not auto-linked
As you may know, bare links within the network are converted to linked titles when they meet the requirements in What limitations does converting question links to links with titles have?. However, I ...
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How can I stop the site from expanding an URL to the title of the post?
If there is a link to a Stack Exchange post from the same site, it is automatically expanded to the title. (Unless the post is deleted.)
For example, https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/77394 renders ...
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MathJax should not attempt to parse autolinked URLs
So I just happened across a comment on space.SE that contains a link to the URL https://johnlewis.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/235948306?$prod_exlrg$. (It's a picture of a camera, in case you're ...
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Disable showing post title instead of URL when linked in a post or comment in iOS app
Whenever you type a link, like this one: What happens if you answered a question, questioner says thanks, but didn't accept your answer as correct?, it comes up as the title of the question linked....
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² (squared) not a valid search or URL character
The character ² is not a valid search character. On Electrical Engineering, one common term is I²C, sometimes (correctly) spelled as I²C (IIC or I-squared-C). A search for I²C does not throw an error, ...
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Comment Markup is Broken for Some Reason
In this question I tried to making the following comment in markup:
Hey jk, and welcome to [workplace.se]! The best questions here ask
*"practical, answerable questions based on actual problems ...
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Stop turning bare URLs in RFC 2606 domains into links
The Problem
Sometimes on Stack Overflow (and —how meta— on meta) you talk about URLs and use an RFC 2606 domain (such as 'http://example.com'), but you will never mean this to be a hyperlink. These ...
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URLs in comments surrounded by double quotes wrongly linkified [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
strange character replacement on SO
I have made a comment here (first comment in this question itself) with this text:
Test 1 (without backticks): String myURL = String("http:...
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Link button in post editor escapes square brackets in code
The link button in the post editor incorrectly escapes square brackets in inline code.
To reproduce:
Write the following MarkDown in the editor
text text `function[]` text text
Select `function[]`,...
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FAQ autolink on meta points to SO
Since this is only evident in a comment, I'll post a comment under this question. [FAQ] should direct you to the current site's FAQ.
EDIT: Now a feature-request to have [faq] default to current site'...
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Require link text for hyperlinks in questions and answers by disabling automatic hyperlinking of bare URLs
This feature request is partially a response to the following: URL inside parenthesis are not automatically hyperlinked.
I propose requiring link text for all hyperlinks in questions and answers (and ...
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URL inside parenthesis are not automatically hyperlinked
Similar to this question. While cleaning up some URL shortened links, I noticed that links are not automatically hyperlinked when enclosed in parens. For example,
(http://meta.stackoverflow.com)
and
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Mention or tag user in answers and comments
I would like to suggest a standard mechanism to mention users and link to their answers. I edit a large number of posts on the ServerFault and Unix site and have observed that people (including me) ...
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URLs in comments are truncated if they contain certain punctuation characters
I just tried to paste this URL in a comment:
http://guava-libraries.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/primitives/Ints.html#asList(int...)
but it comes out like this (note the ...
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Autolink @username in comments to most recent relevent post with #comment-123546 style anchor
When somebody puts a @username reference to somebody, could the system find either (in this order):
The comment above the one with the reference.
Or, the most recent post of any kind on the page by ...
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