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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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