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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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Adding links to Comments [duplicate]
While giving comments many times I wanted to add links to my comment. But instead of using some short hand like Read "this" (this is a link in this case) I had to write Read "http:\\www.somelink.com". ...
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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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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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"$" is silently removed from links used in comments
I was trying to post something similar over on Super User:
… [images](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages)?
However, the comment was rendered as:
<a href="http://www....
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Make links in comments immune to being hidden by username
In this comment, there is a clickable link (the word here); however, because of the distance between the word and the dotted underline, it is actually covered by the grey box surrounding the author's ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Use hyperlink in comment? [duplicate]
Is it possible to make an hyperlink like this on a comment?
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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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Be able to specify a particular room in the chat magic link
From Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments there are several very useful magic links that show up in comments. In particular, there's [chat].
[chat] – link to the current site's ...
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Can the Apple.SE magic comment link's title be changed to "Ask Different"?
Those magic comment links are awesome, especially when commenting on reasonably good but off-topic questions.
Due to the tags I hang out in, I use the [Apple.SE] link more often than most others. Its ...
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Comment size limit and links
It is quite irritating that the links' urls in comments exhaust the character limit, especially in case of Area51 where entering one link to a proposal can almost take the whole of it (with the refer ...
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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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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 ).
To further ...
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Why do bold links syntax in comments work differently than answer text box?
While commenting on a question, I entered a hyperlink within the comment text box and tried to make it bold using the syntax that I have always seen in the answer text box. One of the scenarios didn't ...
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