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How to inhibit auto link generation?

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I have a post where I mention a script named dead.sh

Ok... now I have two posts like that.

But that is not a website. It is a filename, and not one reachable through an URL. How can I inhibit auto link generation? I'd like to display it just like normal non-link text. If it is already possible it could be documented in the Formatting Posts page.

Otherwise this is a feature-request. And if anyone can point me to where auto-linking and CommonMark are implemented I volunteer to do it myself.

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posted about 3 years ago
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Peter Taylor‭ wrote about 3 years ago
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It seems that the CommonMark parser used by this site deviates from the basic spec by turning CDATA blocks into comments, so the only workaround I can find to avoid the auto-linking is to use inline code: dead.sh, and that doesn't meet your requirement to display as normal text.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote about 3 years ago
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You can hack it with a zero-width space... not ideal, but it works. We don't have precise control over how Markdown parsing works, since we use libraries for it.

Estela‭ wrote about 3 years ago
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@ArdOfCode dead.sh&#8203; works fine indeed. That is a good enough answer for me.