Markdown viewer ignores angle-bracketed links
Reported by Daniel Luz | July 30th, 2008 @ 11:11 PM
Markdown supports an "automatic link" syntax, where URLs enclosed in angle brackets () are converted to links with the same URL as its text. GitHub currently strips out all this text, possibly because it's trying to interpret it as an (invalid, unaccepted) HTML tag.
Reference: http://daringfireball.net/projec...
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Daniel Luz July 30th, 2008 @ 11:12 PM
Okay, ironically, Lighthouse also stripped my sample link. <http://example.com/>
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Tekkub July 31st, 2008 @ 05:19 PM
- → State changed from “new” to “open”
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planetbeing August 5th, 2008 @ 09:27 AM
In a related problem, angle bracket parsing as HTML is performed within code blocks, contradicting http://daringfireball.net/projec...
"However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and ampersands are always encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single < and & in your example code needs to be escaped.)"
This mangles my readme, in which I use angle brackets to denote required parameters: http://github.com/planetbeing/xp...
http://daringfireball.net/projec... renders it correctly
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Tekkub August 27th, 2008 @ 05:46 PM
- → Assigned user changed from “” to “defunkt”
@planetbeing, see #826 for that issue.
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Tekkub September 4th, 2008 @ 03:23 PM
- → State changed from “open” to “resolved”
It appears that the solution to #665 fixed this as well. Can you guys confirm please?
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