Wikipedia links don't quite work.

Viscountalpha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_(video_game)

if you look at this link the /URL likes to nest it self into the parentheses. I'm not sure this is a full on glitch or anything that can really be addressed but just letting you know its out there.

FunkyWaltDogg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_(video_game)

Seems to work fine for me.

Ramius

Auto-linking has its limitations. If you were to post a URL something like this: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) you would NOT want the parenthesis included. But posting a URL like your MegaMan example, you DO want the parenthesis included.

The solution is to use the [noparse][URL][/URL][/noparse] tags explicitly when posting URLs which the parser cannot auto-link.

Janin

Ramius wrote: »

Auto-linking has its limitations. If you were to post a URL something like this: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) you would NOT want the parenthesis included. But posting a URL like your MegaMan example, you DO want the parenthesis included.

The solution is to use the [noparse][URL][/URL][/noparse] tags explicitly when posting URLs which the parser cannot auto-link.

Why doesn't the autolinker like ) in URLs? It's an allowed character like any other.

autolinker testing:

http://google.com/$
http://google.com/-
http://google.com/_
http://google.com/.
http://google.com/+
http://google.com/!
http://google.com/*
http://google.com/'
http://google.com/(
http://google.com/)

Ramius

Janin wrote: »

Ramius wrote: »

Auto-linking has its limitations. If you were to post a URL something like this: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) you would NOT want the parenthesis included. But posting a URL like your MegaMan example, you DO want the parenthesis included.

The solution is to use the [noparse][URL][/URL][/noparse] tags explicitly when posting URLs which the parser cannot auto-link.

Why doesn't the autolinker like ) in URLs? It's an allowed character like any other.

Simple. Because experience shows that when posting links on forums, people want to write something like this: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) and not end up with something like this: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)

Satan.

...and Ramius gets the square.

FunkyWaltDogg

Auto... linker? No wonder I didn't know what the hell we were talking about.

Viscountalpha

Ramius wrote: »

Auto-linking has its limitations. If you were to post a URL something like this: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) you would NOT want the parenthesis included. But posting a URL like your MegaMan example, you DO want the parenthesis included.

The solution is to use the [noparse][URL][/URL][/noparse] tags explicitly when posting URLs which the parser cannot auto-link.

k, I wasn't sure this was something really addressable but thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

Henroid

FunkyWaltDogg wrote: »

Auto... linker? No wonder I didn't know what the hell we were talking about.

Paste a URL in a post, hit submit reply, and the URL tags are automatically applied. What this thread is about is basically that automatic function not putting the end tag in the right place. But it's not biggy methinks.

Ramius

There isn't actually a right place in this case. This thread is about people who want the end tag to be put in a different place, which would cause a new "problem" for a different class of URLs.

Janin

Ramius wrote: »

There isn't actually a right place in this case. This thread is about people who want the end tag to be put in a different place, which would cause a new "problem" for a different class of URLs.

Depending on how complicated the autolinker is, can you just count parens? so if it hits ( in a link and it ends with ) you include the trailing paren?