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Direct Link to a Comment
The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to ...
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Replace links with the current question title in comments
In questions, links get converted into question titles (see Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?)
Can the same functionality be added to comments?
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Ban "What have you tried?" links in comments
Recently on SO, I've been noticing a lot of link-only comments on (admittedly bad) questions.
The typical comment looks like this:
What have you tried?
Now, my first instinct is to flag the ...
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strange character replacement on SO
I added a comment to jQuery ID selector not working but something strange is happening. The end code reads "); but SO decided to change that to ";);.
I did not add a ; in front of the ).
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Inline links in comments
Can we please have these?
I would like to be able to write something like [Inline Link](http://example.com/) and have it work in a comment instead of "Inline Link - http://example.com/".
Case in ...
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Magic link new [about] pages in comments
We already have the ability to have certain links auto-expand in comments as per Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments.
Can the new about pages also be added using the [about] format ...
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Would it be possible to fix links containing parentheses in comments?
In this question, several workarounds are shown for inserting links containing parentheses (()). However, they don't work for comments, because you cannot insert the extra line break needed for the
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Can we stop counting link text in comment word-counts? [duplicate]
I have recently posted a comment which linked to a Google Ngrams search of some word uses.
[Ngrams](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caught+flu%2Ccaught+the+flu%2Ccaught+measles%2Ccaught+...
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Will links to images be kept permanently when added to a comment and nothing else? [duplicate]
I assume, that Stack Exchange have some clean-up subsystem, which deletes all "abandoned" images (stored at i.sstatic.net), that is, all of them, that were initially uploaded, but no post is actually ...
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Add a second 'share' button to posts with comment-ready links
I'm very often in the situation of having to link to another post (mostly questions) from comments. As moderator of TeX SE, I often link to related or duplicate questions. I can't use the "close as ...
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Discourage URL shorteners in comments: don't add link's href size to the total comment size
If a comment has [short title](http://lo-o-ong.example.com/url) link, then http://lo-o-ong.example.com/url is counted towards the total comment length limit.
The answer to the same issue (to ignore ...
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Comments inline links with a parenthesis not working properly
Is there a different syntax for commenting with links that contain parentheses? I tried something like this:
[my text](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191439(SQL.90).aspx)
And that ...
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What is the syntax for providing a hyperlink (with a link description) in comments
The comments help says:
Hyperlinks can be formatted as [basic links](http://example.com)
Then I write [This is a link description](http://linkurl.com) and the result is unexpected.
(You can see my ...
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Recognize URLs in angle brackets in comments
When I type a URL in angle brackets, such as <http://www.example.com>, in a comment, the URL is not detected and linked. Supporting this would allow links to be used more naturally in the ...
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Comment links within the same question
When I link to a comment within the same question, the link doesn't bring me to the comment itself unless I open it in a new tab/window. Can we fix that?
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