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Curious, is there a specific reason you put links between < and >?
by SushiHippie 3y ago
Curious, is there a specific reason you put links between < and >?
- jamesmunns 3y agoIn markdown (or at least some flavors) that is the typical way of making a hyperlink actually a link. It's equivalent to [link](link) in markdown.
- dredmorbius 3y agoAngle brackets are used for "naked" URLs & email addresses in Markdown: <https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#urls-and-email-addresses https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#urls-and-email-a...>
- Symbiote 3y agoIt was the standard way to format URLs on Usenet. GP is at least 40 years old.
- dredmorbius 3y agoBless you.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- gist 3y agoSimilar using " " to quote for reply vs. >.
- dredmorbius 3y agoCarry-over from Markdown, and it appears to help HN's URL parser in some instances: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745065>
- quinncom 3y agoRFC 3986, from 2005: “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”: Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace. <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986>