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

Richard_Kennaway 11 Apr 2014 19:48 UTC
2 points
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.