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How to inhibit auto link generation?
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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Method 1: <span> (or other HTML tag)
It appears that Markdown isn't detected within HTML tags, so you can wrap the URL-like in a span or other tag and it won't turn into a link.
<span>dead.sh</span> -> dead.sh
<i>dead.sh</i> -> dead.sh
etc.
Method 2: . (period escape)
You can also escape the period with its HTML escape code
dead.sh -> dead.sh
This is a bit less readable for those looking at the source, but for the end user the result is identical to having a normal period.
I wouldn't really recommend using a zero-width space to trick the parser; those who don't know the trick will be confused why it's in the source, and, of course, you'll end up with a zero-width space in your post (so anyone copying the filename might get a surprise). All in all, not great for anyone.
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