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Automatic URL parser is wrong (discarding character after URL)

When using the part for https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/330357/272354: in a question, the trailing colon is discarded. IMHO it should be obvious that the colon cannot be part of the URL (link), so it ...
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URLs in double quotes are not resolved [duplicate]

There seems to be a bug inasmuch that there is a disparity between the auto-resolving of Stack Exchange URLs within double-quotes contained in posts in normal viewing mode and in edit mode. Example (...
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`'%` breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview

'% breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview. Example: The link works once the edit is saved: Experiment below: https://example.com/an'%20example
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Quotes prevent auto-linking Stack Exchange question URLs, but the preview doesn't reflect this? [duplicate]

Compare this preview of editing a post (the same is true when writing): With the results: Can this get fixed at some point?
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Period (.) after a link renders after the link in preview, but as part of the link in the rendered post, when there are bold/italic markers

This is not a duplicate of this similar, much older bug report, as the Markdown renderers have changed since that report (as a result of the CommonMark transition), and that report was marked ...
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Link in quotes rendered as title in edit preview mode but as URL in the rendered post

It looks like links to questions within quotes are being rendered with the question title in the edit mode preview, but as a URL in normal viewing. Given the following question Markdown: Testing some ...
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Inconsistent Markdown rendering between preview and final post

When I attempted to edit this revision of a post, I noticed that the preview is different from how the post appears: Preview rendering: Post rendering: Markup: The actual URLs of the links are also ...
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Link renders differently on client and server side when preceded by a special character

When editing a question on History of Science and Mathematics, I observed that a link which was not rendered in the post was hyperlinked in the edit preview (see pictures below). I tried reproducing ...
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Question title isn’t obtained from the http link

In the post preview both the http and https links are looked same: At the same time the normal view contains a raw link instead of the question title for http version: Both links are ...
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URL with multiple ending parentheses produces broken links in markdown preview

I tried to create a link to https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html?q=rktl#(idx._(gentag._305._(lib._scribblings%2Freference%2Freference..scrbl))) using Markdown in this way: [example]...
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Auto-rendering of links stops working after the fifth link ... or does it? [duplicate]

This question contains ten links to other posts on the Stack Exchange network. On Meta Stack Exchange, bare links like these are replaced by the question titles. However, on that particular post, it ...
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Visibility of links with uppercase letters in protocol section is inconsistent

Any link is visible in post preview despite of case in protocol section. But only links where protocol in lowercase are visible in result. Here is the link with uppercase letter in protocol section: ...
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Link formatting broken when it renders correctly in preview

I went back to an older answer of mine and I realized that the link formatting was broken (as you can see in this revision): But the preview (see—but don't save—here) showed that everything looked OK:...
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Different link parsing among preview mode and in the final

The post Localization bot links are broken now contains two links to transifex strings. In the question body links look like this: I.e. both links have the tail which doesn't recognized as a part ...
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Internal links for Movies & TV not converted to title

In my answer to Where can I ask questions about TVs?, the internal links to questions on Movies & TV were not converted to question titles. The titles display properly in the markdown preview ...
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Incorrect preview for link with closing parenthesis at the end

When I write a link whose URL ends with a closing parenthesis, it's handled correctly when I save the post, but not when I look at it in a preview. For example this markdown: [`CSharpCompilation....
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Why is there a difference between rendering of links in tag-wiki and in editing preview?

I have recently edited this tag-info on MathOverflow. Only now I have noticed that links are shown as bare urls: On the other hand, when editing, the links are rendered as titles of the question in ...
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Raw-Link titles not rendering properly in preview

When editing a question on Cryptography.SE I noticed that when using the full (adress-bar) link, the full (raw) link would also appear in the preview and when saved it would properly show the title. ...
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links with $ signs handled ambiguously

It appears that links like http://nginx.org/r/$uri are shown with the $uri part being part of the link during the live preview (JavaScript), yet not when shown statically on the page (server-side). ...
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Second succesive link is not displayed (links with URL at the end of the page)

While editing a [question on Ask Ubuntu] I noticed a bug: > the link after [CMYK] [reference chart] is not displayed [CMYK]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model [reference ...
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How do I preview tag wiki exerpt? How do I put a link there? [duplicate]

I've edited a tag to include a link into exerpt. But it shows Markdown source of the link instead of actual link. How do I preview the exerpt while editing it? Where to find syntax and available ...
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Adding a meta question link in a meta question doesn't resolve question title in preview, but does in actual post

Best described with images: When Editing Actual Post (Highlighting by me). This also applies when editing the post after it was posted.
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Stack Exchange URL anchor text in posts are no longer being converted to link titles in post preview

I've noticed over the past week or two (or three?) that Stack Exchange URLs in posts don't have their anchor text automatically converted to the title of the linked post during the edit and preview ...
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Clicking on a link in the preview screen crashes Android app [closed]

App version: 1.0.31 /1.0.52 Device: Nexus 7/ Moto G Problem: If you try click on a link in the preview screen when creating a question, the app crashes. Logcat: 04-27 02:51:07.673 E/AndroidRuntime(...
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Culture and language specific links in tag wikis

This is not a huge issue, but something I found when reviewing this suggested edit (ensure you have markdown selected). I noticed that one of the links pointed to the French version of MSDN for doco ...
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Misleading post preview. Links visible in preview are not links when posted question

Check this SO answer. Some links in brackets () are not highlighted as hyperlinks. However when you edit post, in preview, all links looks correct. It seems that brackets around hyperlinks prevent ...
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Inconsistent auto-hyperlink behavior between post preview and actual post

In the preview zone for posting, this link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allégorie_de_la_caverne breaks just before the é. Here's a screenshot to demonstrate: However, as you can see in the ...
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Links are not parsed in preview, but are parsed after editing

Here's the question body. The links after the paragraph after the numbered list, aren't parsed in the preview. If you remove the paragraph right after the numbered list, they are parsed.
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Link 'properly' set in the edit mode but incorrect in the final answer

I have posted recently a link (among others). I set it, as always, with [](). The bug happens is in this answer to an old question. The JavaScript preview looks properly. The parsed code looks this ...
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Edit preview bug - preview doesn't match real

I was editing an answer that left the url malformed and misparsed. Below is an image that illustrates the problem. Now, I understand this has come up before, and has been classified as "by design....
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Preview of automatic titles for raw links is limited to 30 URLs

While editing the long FAQ, I noticed that many automatic titles of raw links are not shown in the preview. On page load I see a single XHR that, for example, includes question id 11740. But 11740 is ...
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Links in answer editor appear correctly in preview, but not in the answer [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Hyperlink is shown incorrectly in SO post I my answer I attempt to link to a page in the Oracle Java documentation. The URL of the link is: http://download.oracle.com/javase/...
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Hyperlink is shown incorrectly in SO post

In this SO post, the hyperlink is shown incorrectly in my browser (Firefox 3.6.10, WinXP SP3): Interestingly enough, it is displayed correctly in the editor preview:
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