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(I'm not sure I'm right on this meta site, but since there's a bug tag...)

The following is a link to a web page with a trailing ) in its URL:

test

I know, the parentheses can be escaped, but that's not the issue here.


It's markdown live preview looks like this (apart from the actual URL):

test)

I.e. the trailing ) of the URL is thought of as the close parenthesis of the markdown code.

Now, if everything goes as I remember, the finished post will have a link that looks like this:

test

Therefore, the server-side markdown parser behavior is different from the JS live preview.

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There may be some minor discrepancies between the preview and the final post.

This one in particular is because the JavaScript regular expressions can't quite deal with recursive parens -- but the server-side can.

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    Wouldn't it be more useful to reduce the server-side feature set then, to match the behaviors of both systems as good as possible? While this would require work-arounds to make these kinds of links work, at least the preview would prepare the user adequately for how the post turns out.
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Dec 10, 2010 at 19:29
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    @daniel preview is like the viewfinder on your camera. It gives you a reasonable idea of how your photo will turn out but it's not pixel-exact. Dec 10, 2010 at 22:04
  • Fortunately, you can make “free/test” edits for up to five minutes before questions and answers are locked in so that further edits trigger a revision (editing a comment always causes an edit icon to be added).
    – Synetech
    Feb 29, 2012 at 3:44

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