How can I prevent a www.example.com URL from becoming a hyperlink, without (ab)using another formatting feature such as inline code formatting? I notice I can quote: “www.example.com”, but I’d like to avoid that. Is it possible to somehow escape the auto-link change as I create/edit a post?

Backslashes? www\.example\.com www.example.com

[תמונה] Mittineague: Backslashes? www\.example\.com www.example.com I noticed this solution does not work any longer. It was the first thing I tried before googling and finding this post. I’ll keep looking for a solution. Surprisingly, even www.example.com is converted into a hyperlink if on the same line as a regular link. Looks like I’ll be using www . example . com www.example.com

Why in the world would you do any of that when you can simply use a proper code span with the ` key? www.example.com See Markdown Reference

Preformatted text has other meanings. I reject the premise in the first post, it reads like “how can I avoid hitting myself if I really like hitting myself?”

I just want to be able to type out a domain name as text (without formatting/styling) and have enough OCD not only go to length of using . , but also to spend time finding out why \. doesn’t work as expected and post about it. Fortunately, not everyone is cursed with my level of OCD. :wink:

Zero width Unicode spacers would also work but anyone who copies and pastes that URL is in for a surprise.. and not the good kind! Dunno if @sam has any other ideas but the request is really odd.

Yeah bypassing linkify is not easy: https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/lib/rules_core/linkify.js and https://github.com/markdown-it/linkify-it We had a similar request with complaints about m.sc being autolinked. I do wonder if we should side with @Vitaly here and disable linkify fuzzy out of the box. Cause https://cnn.com will continue to work even if linkify fuzzy is disabled. So all you do is lose out on www.cnn.com I think we should probably amend the test here to have a simpler bypass for fuzzy, just not sure what it would be

Well, using ` does turn the text into a section instead of which is preformatted text. @notriddle Technically speaking there is a difference, but there really is no reason why can’t be acceptable – URL’s are a form of “code” afterall.

[תמונה] schungx: @notriddle Technically speaking there is a difference, but there really is no reason why can’t be acceptable – URL’s are a form of “code” afterall. Well said. The few cases where it has come up for me are when I’m trying to point someone to one url instead of another – i.e., when I’m trying to de-emphasize a URL. For example: A: Just use smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com and select OpenMRS, Inc. as your charity. B: Just use smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com and select OpenMRS, Inc. as your charity. B is certainly a reasonable workaround; personally I prefer A. But, this is such an embarrassingly small issue, I can’t justify anyone (including myself) spending time on it. I’ve got amazon . com as a workaround for the 1-2 times I’ll ever need this again, so I’m happy… clearly afflicted with too much focus on meaningless details… but happy. The awesome folks working on Discourse have more important things to do. I recommend focusing on other ways to continue making Discourse the most awesome forum software in the world and let this thread fade away. I’m sure I’ll re-discover this thread in a few years when this comes up again, so won’t need to post about it ever again. :nerd_face: (and I promise to not suggest a Discourse GSoC project to add support for www\.example\.com)

The main purpose of our forum is talking about a company called Alarm.com so people write Alarm.com in posts all the time, probably in 50% or so of topics. We’re going to end up unintentionally linking to Alarm.com an awful lot. I tried disabling linkify all together but that causes a bigger problem because then people can’t put a URL on a line by itself to get a onebox. We would love a way to disable linkify fuzzy to avoid this problem but still be able to linkify full URLs. Is it possible?

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notriddle (Michael Howell) 7 בינואר,‏ 2018,‏ 2:28am 5

Because it’s not code?

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