Better supporting parenthesis in links...

[Jason Garber]

Fantastic!  Thank you, Ryan.  I've added it to an existing ticket and  
I can't wait to apply your patch.

The ticket's URL is http://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/82-rendering-error-for-link-with-parenthesis

Jason

On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Ryan Alyea wrote:

> Is there a better way to support parenthesis in links like Wikipedia  
> links? Requiring brackets around the link is confusing to many new  
> users who don't understand why their Wikipedia links won't work. I  
> wrote a patch on the latest version of RedCloth to support this a  
> lot better. Instead of stopping on a end parenthesis, it instead  
> looks at the URL itself. If the number of opening and closing  
> parenthesis are equal, it allows the end parenthesis in the link.  
> I'm sure there's a better way, like checking if they are properly  
> nested.
>
> Included is two patches, one for the C code, another to include more  
> tests. I do not have Java, so I cannot test myself, however it  
> should be trivial to port.
>
> < 
> links_containing_parenthesis 
> .patch><tests_for_links_containing_parenthesis.patch>
>
> Ryan Alyea
> ryan at fangamer.com
>
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