Comment by leephillips
10 years ago
Good article. You have a typo: looks like you're using Pandoc or something similar, and left out the closing parenthesis in the link after [undo log].
10 years ago
Good article. You have a typo: looks like you're using Pandoc or something similar, and left out the closing parenthesis in the link after [undo log].
Yeah, that's a common error among Markdown writers. It's too easy to forget the last bracket, especially if you are putting a link inside a parenthetical comment in the first place.
Fortunately, it's easy to detect programmatically. I have a little shell script which flags problems in my Markdown files: http://gwern.net/markdown-lint.sh
In this case, you can use Pandoc | elinks -dump to get a rendered text version, and then simply grep in the plain text for various things like "-e '(http' -e ')http' -e '[http' -e ']http'"
For me, Vim's highlighting and concealing prevents this class of typos. It also makes it more pleasant to read the source, as it hides the links unless I'm editing the line.