• cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Huh. This got me curious.

    Yes, I did just type a bare URL. Every mature markdown parser I’ve used turns this into a link, and appropriately handles trailing punctuation.

    So I went to the spec, and it’s explicitly called out that this is not an autolink. Autolinks must be explicitly surrounded with angle brackets <>.

    So yeah \shrug.

    https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#autolinks

    Edit to be clear: This means that both of our markdown parsers are wrong relative to the commonmark spec. But I’ll argue that if a parser is going to attempt to autolink this, then handling trailing punctuation is better than not.

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      5 months ago

      I did not know about autolinks - thanks for the link!

      It is interesting how different parsers handle this exact situation. I usually am cautious about it because I typically am not sure how it will be handled if I am not explicit with the URL and additional text.