Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 07:34:21AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:22:04PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > > > > > > Markdown supports automatic links by surrounding URLs with > > > > angle brackets, as documented in > > > > <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink> > > > > > > One of the joys of markdown is that there are so many variants. A lot of > > > them (including GitHub-flavored markdown) will linkify URLs even when > > > they're not inside angle brackets. > > > > > > So I don't mind this patch, but I'm curious what's rendering the > > > markdown you're seeing. I'd think online that one would either come > > > across the raw text, or the GFM from https://github.com/git/git. > > > > I was using Gruber's reference implementation from Debian stable > > (1.0.1-7). > > OK. I guess my question more was "why are you doing that?". I'd expect > people to find the GFM rendering on GitHub, or just look at the text via > "less". Actually, I was initially seeing the lack of trailing slash causing unnecessary 301 redirects on public-inbox.org. So, I added the trailing slash and ran "markdown <README.md" to check my work. Then, I realized links weren't generated at all without angle brackets. So down the rabbit hole I went to read Gruber's syntax document and linkifying the rest for compatibility with Gruber's implementation. > But it's not really my business why you would want to do it. :) It's > reasonable for us to cater to the common subset of renderers. :) I figure somebody unfamiliar with Markdown editing README.md is likely to run the original implementation locally to check their work, as I did. (hmm... and vger is unusually slow this week)