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Thomas Bukowski

17 Mar, 2009 03:55 AM

Hello, I've taken a look at https://help.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/380-how-to-escape-an-url, but it looks like URLs are still truncated in code blocks:

Test
https://help.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/380-how-to-escape-an-url
Test

Thanks, thomas.

1. 1 Posted by Thomas Bukowski on 02 Apr, 2009 11:40 AM

   

   Hello,

   I think I wasn't particularly clear. I'm wondering if there's any way of avoiding shortened URLs in code blocks. We host our documentation on Tender, and installation instructions in particular would benefit from full-length URLs, since they would be cut-and-paste compatible.

   I might have missed some trick to achieve this with markdown. If not, a reply would be great!

   Thank you,

   thomas.

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2. 2 Posted by rick on 02 Apr, 2009 01:25 PM

   

   You can put quotes around it, or use a markdown link:

   "https://help.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/380-how-to-escape-an-url"

   Here is how you escape a URL [escape a URL](...)

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3. 3 Posted by Thomas Bukowski on 02 Apr, 2009 10:41 PM

   

   That works for inline links, but can URLs inside code blocks also be untruncated? By code block, I mean several lines prefixed with four spaces:

   script/plugin install http://newrelic.rubyforge.org/svn/newrelic_rpm
   

   Since it's a code block, neither the quote trick nor the markdown link works, and the link gets truncated.

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4. 4 Posted by Michael Bleigh on 24 Apr, 2009 03:37 PM

   

   +1 to fixing this. It is a nightmare for writing REST API docs.

   In fact, why is any markdown processed in code blocks at all? Inside the indented area there should be no processing whatsoever other than escaping HTML entities.

   Also escaping it via [http://myurl.com/](http://myurl.com) doesn't work, at least in the context in which I tried it.

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5. 5 Posted by System on 01 May, 2009 11:30 PM

   

   A Lighthouse ticket was created for this discussion

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6. 6 Posted by Kyle Neath (Git... on 01 May, 2009 11:30 PM

   

   I think we'll take a look at how to disable the autolink inside code blocks. It's starting to get a bit annoying on our end too.

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7. 7 Posted by rick on 27 May, 2009 06:23 AM

   

   Thomas: I've fixed the issue, but I had to modify your example a bit. The autolinker still picks up URLs in the markdown code blocks. It's preferable if you use the @@@ syntax to specify the code blocks so that the parser can recognize it and process it outside of markdown and the autolinker.

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8. 8 Posted by rick on 27 May, 2009 06:47 AM

   

   Okay, so the @@@ syntax is not required. The custom formatter now doesn't run the autolinker or markdown formatters on any pre-formatted content.

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9. Nicole closed this discussion on 10 Dec, 2009 09:00 PM.