Adding an alias to a raw url.

[John Gruber]

Brian Forte <bforte at adelaide.on.net> wrote on 11/16/05 at 7:02 PM:


> I hesitate to guess at John's thinking, but I've always half-assumed he made

> 

>       <[URL here]>

> 

> strings auto-anchors (to coin an ugly phrase) in Markdown in 

> imitation of his (and other's) e-mail writing habit of delimiting 

> URLs in plain text with the greater-than and less-than characters to 

> ensure they didn't get munged as your 'url plus question mark' string 

> did above.


Correct.

-J.G.