/** This addition handles auto linking of text. When included, it will parse out links and create a hrefs for them. **/ var urlReplacerArgs = { matcher: /^((?:https?:(?:\/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.])(?:[^\s()<>]+|\([^\s()<>]+\))+(?:\([^\s()<>]+\)|[^`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’\s]))/, spaceOrTagBoundary: true, emitter: function(matches) { var url = matches[1], displayUrl = url; // Don't autolink a markdown link to something if (url.match(/\]\[\d$/)) { return; } // If we improperly caught a markdown link abort if (url.match(/\(http/)) { return; } if (url.match(/^www/)) { url = "http://" + url; } return ['a', {href: url}, displayUrl]; } }; Discourse.Dialect.inlineRegexp(_.merge({start: 'http'}, urlReplacerArgs)); Discourse.Dialect.inlineRegexp(_.merge({start: 'www'}, urlReplacerArgs));