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Is there a reason not to enable replacing internal SE URL text on comments with the page linked to? [duplicate]
On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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Markdown for links in comments sometimes breaks with angle brackets and nested square brackets
The following markdown:
[[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>)
Produces this in a post:
[example].com (https://www.example.com/abc)
But this in a comment:
[[...
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Why was a straightforward link in a comment misrendered in a notification email?
In How can I do the work of Universal USB Installer from Linux?, I received the following email notification for the first comment, with a linked URL ending three characters too early:
The link ...
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Add/fix links to comments in review queues
When reviewing a post, the comments are shown underneath, which is great, but there's a difference: on the Q&A page, the timestamps (x units of time ago) are clickable and contain a direct link to ...
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Link in comments occasionally not formatted on MathJax-enabled site
Occasionally, links in comments that use MathJax do not show normally. The problem is reproducible, and browser-agnostic. It comes and goes depending on inserting a space around the closing $ ...
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Links in comments delimited by less-than/greater-than signs occasionally include the delimiting greater-than sign
Over at Stack Overflow, I wrote a comment that renders like this:
and links to https://wg21.link/p2128>, which returns 404.
The way I wrote the link in the markup is <https://wg21.link/p2128>...
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Count length of comment only by the markdown formatted *result* length, not by its *raw input* length [duplicate]
When adding markdown formatted links, you have the chance to give a short and readable name to a link, using :
I have to change it to:
to be able to comment. Result:
If I try to save some space in ...
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Comment links don't show up on election pages if there are query strings or parameters in the URL
In Biblical Hermeneutics' election page, the comment links (on timestamps of the comments) are clickable if I visit https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/election directly.
If I visit the election ...
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Best practices and advice how to shorten links to comments when including them in other comments? Can I safely drop the noredirect=1?
When adding links to comments within other comments I often want to shorten them so that I can add fit more plain text within the character limit.
I usually start by removing the words of the title ...
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Does Cyrillic copy/pasted from a Wikipedia definition kill proper display of hyperlinks in comments, but not in posts?
I tried to quote Wikipedia in a comment:
For space-word-deficient folks like myself Zarya (Russian: Заря́, lit. 'Dawn'[b]), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian: "...
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Links to comments when the title has been edited
On a Stack Exchange site, you can get a link to a comment if you click on the timestamp next to the comment. The exact URL might be a bit different depending on the way you arrived to the comment. In ...
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Built-in (or recommended safe) way to post a link to an image inside a comment? [duplicate]
Screenshots are so useful. Is there a built-in way to upload an image that produces a link that can be shared inside a comment (since images can't be put into comments directly)?
If not, what is a ...
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Should bare URLs to SE posts show up as links in bounty messages, the same way that they do in comments?
From the answer to How does the bounty system work?
Can I use Markdown formatting in the bounty remarks? Can I edit the remark?
Bounty notices support the Markdown mini format used for comments, with ...
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Hyperlinks not handled in comments in interaction with MathJax followed by some specific characters
On at least some¹ MathJax-enabled websites, in a comment² with a MathJax sequence immediately followed by a / or + (but not a space or a -), a subsequent [text](url) is mishandled if followed by ...
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What's the URL format that shows all comments expanded for all SE sites?
I want to archive some questions. But some comments are hidden because of the mechanics of how SE's UX work i.e. I have to click on show X more comments below each post.
So, like superuser.com/a/...
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Why is the auto-replace for on-site question-links with the respective question-title only enabled in posts but not in comments? [duplicate]
When you paste an url in a question or answer (i.e. a post), its link text is automatically replaced with the title of linked-to question, like so: Replace trilogy raw links with the current question ...
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Pre-2017 meta links remain broken in 2020
Back in 2017, SE changed their meta URL hierarchy, so their URLs are no longer meta.site.stackexchange.com, but rather site.meta.stackexchange.com. While the Community user did a good job fixing all ...
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Square brackets in hyperlinks is broken in comments
On all Stack Exchange websites, using square brackets in a hyperlink like in the following Markdown code is correctly translated into HTML in questions and answers, but not in comments:
[[class....
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Do comments that promote a user's post fall under spam?
Our current definition of spam focuses mainly on someone trying to sell you an off-site product.
What makes something spam and when should I flag it?
A post should be marked as spam only if it ...
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Links to IPv6 addresses work as expected in answers, but cannot be used in comments
Sandbox example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328811/192262
I can type http://[::1] in a question or answer, and it'll automatically turn into a link. I can also use markdown to format it as link,...
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Does the user feed actually link to comments?
On the activity tab of a user you can see user feed. This feed seems to include also comments - however, those links are in a strange format. I can just say that when I try them, they do not link to ...
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All links are not clickable in the post when commenting in iOS app
When commenting edit box is opened on some post, the all links in such post are not clickable in iOS app. For example:
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: Unknown (iPad7,3)
OS Version: Version 12.0 (...
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NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID when following a link to a Meta site?
I followed a link in a comment to a Meta site (specifically, from the comment here, and instead of getting the Academia Meta site, I got the Chrome warning page:
For what it's worth, someone else ...
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Starred chat message with a comment is not parsed well
This chat message contains a link to the comment of the post. Chat message is starred, and in the starboard link not correctly parsed:
In particular clickable part of the link refers to the ...
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Is it really so bad to use URL shorteners in comments, considering the character limit?
I have noticed that Stack Overflow (and presumably other sites) don't like it when you place a shortened url from a third party in the comments, but there is a character limit in comments.
What if I ...
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Comment links starting with double slashes (//) doesn't show up in linked posts [duplicate]
If the below, for example, is posted as a comment, the linked post doesn't show up in Linked in the sidebar.
[Doesn't show up in linked.](//meta.stackexchange.com/q/3122)
This seems like a bug.
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How to prevent inline link URL from counting towards comment length limit? [duplicate]
Is there a way to prevent an inline link URL (the one in parentheses) from counting towards the comment's length limit? How? If not, please implement this. Is there another input technique to make ...
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Relative links in comments are broken on the network profile
When reviewing a Low Quality Post as Recommend Deletion and leaving an automatic comment, a From Review link appears to the review item. These comments are like any comments visible in the Activity ...
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Can I use links in comments? [duplicate]
I tried and failed here. Please tell me, what am I doing wrong?
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Broken tooltip for question link with non-Latin symbols in comments
If I put a link (from the browser) to a question with non-Latin title in the comment, then I've got not URL decoded text with incorrect right border (in FF):
I would like to see correct title ...
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