RichardKennaway comments on Botworld: a cellular automaton for studying self-modifying agents embedded in their environment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 11 April 2014 07:48:48PM *  1 point [-]

How the heck do I stop the commenting software from putting those angle brackets around my URLs inside code blocks?

This is an experiment. Attempt 1:

a url: <http://example.com>

Attempt 2:

a url: http\://example.com

Attempt 3:

a url: http​://example.com

1: Just the url to replicate the original problem.

2: Backslashing the colon. That blocks the URL-recogniser, but the backslash isn't interpreted.

3: Unicode ZERO WIDTH SPACE before the colon. It works! Well, no, it doesn't. You get something that looks like a url until someone tries copying and pasting it.