How can we improve URL detection in Markdown? I posted a question on Stack Overflow and happened to click a URL in my post. To my surprise, it wasn't functional, and it took three different, nonintuitive manipulations before I achieved a functional URL. Stack Overflow says "not my problem", so I'm deferring to Markdown itself.
Here's a sample<https://raw.github.com/gist/3909246/1885a4d509fb555c158208d9bfc319b9f8f95039/urls.md>Markdown document on Gist. All but the final hyperlink fail to be functional. You can verify this behavior in Dingus<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus>. I'd paste my sample directly in Gmail, but it would actually fix the URLs and obscure the problem. I believe this is easily fixed by altering the regex responsible for parsing [name](url) syntax to be lazy rather than eager. -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
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