Linux chat client ends a hyperlink at the ( character
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Description
Was chatting with a friend and linked a url to a wiki page that happened to have a parenthesis in it. The app autogenerated the hyperlink but ended it at the paren character.
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Research direction
Reproduce the hyperlinking behavior in the Linux chat client with a wiki URL containing a parenthesis. Trace the chat client's automatic URL detection and verify that the completed hyperlink includes the intended parenthesized URL rather than ending at the opening parenthesis.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, linux
- Domain
- desktop-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100