asked 2010-11-24 04:57:50 -0500

graeme
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http://investmentqa.com/

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http://askbot.org/

I noticed that this has been mentioned on Ask Sage, and I have found that users of my site do not understand Mardkown. Mostly, this does not matter, but they do need to link to things, and the result is lots of plain text URLs (lots is relative given that the site is new and low traffic). Auto linking would be really useful.

There are some existing solutions (I found this and this so you might not have to do it from scratch.

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Thanks. I'll definitely look into it. Evgeny ( 2010-11-24 11:54:39 -0500 )edit

A big +1 on this. Note that, strangely, urls like http://askbot.org are autolinked in comments niles ( 2010-11-28 13:41:20 -0500 )edit

Hi Niles, that's because comments are not parsed with markdown, so it's much easier to deal with urls there. If there is "urlizing" in the questions and answers, it must be compatible with markdown. Evgeny ( 2010-11-28 13:59:34 -0500 )edit

The only thing I (or anyone on my site) ever uses Markdown for is to insert links. I would happily trade Markdown for auto linking - the only drawback is that the link text would always be a URL. Of course having both would be better! graeme ( 2010-12-03 03:21:47 -0500 )edit

I hear you - will be done. Just don't want to switch my "brain context" from badges right now, should be done with them by Sunday the latest. Evgeny ( 2010-12-03 21:59:47 -0500 )edit