Autolinking - URL surrounded by parentheses

[joemun]

Input:
(https://www.something.com/1234)

Results in:
(<a href="https://www.something.com/1234)">https://www.something.com/1234)</a>

Note that the trailing paren is included in the target URL.

@joemunriq

(https://www.something.com/1234)

Input:

https://www.something.com/1234

Once parsed it becomes:

<a href="https://www.something.com/1234">https://www.something.com/1234</a>

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Input:

Follow this [link] to learn more.

[link]: https://www.something.com/1234

Once parsed it becomes:

<a href="https://www.something.com/1234">link</a>

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Input:

[link](https://www.something.com/1234)

Once parsed it becomes:

<a href="https://www.something.com/1234">link</a>

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Input:

( https://www.something.com/1234 )

Once parsed it becomes:

( <a href="https://www.something.com/1234">https://www.something.com/1234</a> )

[joemun]

@wifiextender Thank you for the info... but I'm calling out one specific buggy behavior using Showdown's GFM auto-linking feature, which automatically creates a link when it identifies a URL (without using Markdown's link syntax). If the URL is contained within parens (without spaces), it will include the closing paren as part of the anchor's HREF.

[joemun]

It looks like GitHub and RedCarpet (the MD parser that GitHub uses) handles this case specifically. It looks for enclosing parens:

https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/blob/00d4e02a2cc3ada39c2547529b29fb2f871a83fb/ext/redcarpet/autolink.c

(Example: https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/blob/00d4e02a2cc3ada39c2547529b29fb2f871a83fb/ext/redcarpet/autolink.c#L115)

Can we get these same rules applied to Showdown?

Thanks!

[tivie]

This is a tricky situation because parenthesis are allowed in urls and there can be situations where the rules used by RedCarpet will wrongly exclude the parentehsis from the url.

For instance:

The url is http://www.example.com/a/link/that/ends/in/parenthesis)

So this:

(http://www.example.com/a/link/that/ends/in/parenthesis) is a link with parentehsis)

gets converted into this:

(http://www.example.com/a/link/that/ends/in/parenthesis) is a link with parentehsis)

<p>(<a href="http://www.example.com/a/link/that/ends/in/parenthesis">http://www.example.com/a/link/that/ends/parenthesis</a>) is a link with parentehsis)</p>

which is wrong.

Sure, this is an edge case, and it's highly unlikely that an URL will end in a single unpaired parenthesis but...

[tivie]

on the other hand, it's really easy to workaround this issue:

(<https://www.something.com/1234>)

[tivie]

Regardless, since we have a "GitHub markdown flavour", that tries to follow github rules, I will create an option that implements the rules of github regarding parentehsis in autolinks.

This option will be disabled by default, and you would need to explicitely enable it.

[tivie]

This was added as a new option called excludeTrailingPunctuationFromURLs. Enabling this option will remove trailing punctuation and parenthesis from URL parsing in auto linking.