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
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<span>.</span>example<span>.</span>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
Because it’s not code?
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 <span>.</span>, 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. 
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
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 <code></code> section instead of <pre></pre> which is preformatted text.
@notriddle Technically speaking there is a difference, but there really is no reason why <code></code> 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.comand 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<span>.</span>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. 
(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?
Following up… It looks like if you change the defaultOptions in vendor/assets/javascripts/markdown-it.js so that fuzzyLink is false, as Sam suggested, it solves my problem. But doing so creates a big headache because we don’t want to manually redo that change every time we update.
Then I stumbled on a simpler solution. The markdown linkify tlds setting is a list of top level domains that are assumed to be URLs by fuzzy linking. If you remove all those TLDs and add just one fake TLD that would never actually show up in a post then it effectively disables fuzzyLink. You need at least one TLD in the list or apparently anything that ends with a . will be treated as a link.
So no need for a code change, we can disable fuzzyLink my removing the real TLDs from the setting and adding a fake one.
Otra solución alternativa para suprimir Auto enlazar palabras.
Agrega \u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e en medio del texto.
Detalles
Nuestro sitio tiene SWI-Prolog agregado al componente del tema Auto enlazar palabras.
Para evitar que SWI-Prolog se convierta en un enlace, por ejemplo SWI-Prolog, y también para que no se muestre como una sección de código, por ejemplo SWI-Prolog, agregar \u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e en medio del texto, por ejemplo SWI\u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e-Prolog, hace que el texto no sea reconocido por Auto enlazar palabras. Dado que \u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e se renderiza en algo que no aparecerá en un navegador, funciona como se necesita para el caso específico, por ejemplo SWI-Prolog.
Puedes usar <span></span> para rodear el dominio convertido en enlace, en lugar de insertarlo en medio. Esto es útil al hablar de empresas y otros nombres propios que contienen puntos, como itch.io.
Por ejemplo, si simplemente escribes itch.io en el editor Markdown, se convertirá automáticamente en un enlace: itch.io
Pero también puedes escribir <span>itch.io</span>, y entonces no se convertirá en enlace: itch.io
No es necesario insertar <span></span> en medio del dominio, como en itch<span></span>.io, aunque eso también funciona: itch.io
(Iría bien que @precessor o un moderador cambiaran la casilla de verificación “
Solución” a esta respuesta en lugar de la solución actualmente seleccionada; la solución antigua funcionaba en 2016, pero ya no funciona hoy.)
Esto es lo único que me funcionó hoy.
Itch.io
Itch`.`io
El preformateado está en la barra de herramientas y es más rápido de usar 
Excepto que eso cambia el formato, así que ¿por qué querrías eso en lugar de una opción que no cambia el formato?
Porque el formato no es importante. Solo lo que obtienes lo es. Y el propósito aquí es prevenir el hiperenlazado, y mi solución sigue siendo la más fácil. Y la más rápida
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