Autolinking not working like GFM

[0xdevalias]

In GFM we can have URL's automatically turned into links without requiring any special formatting around them, yet this doesn't seem to be possible with this library. With the closest solution seeming to be:

• https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#automatic-links

It seems this has been noticed in other projects as well, eg.:

• Autolink in kramdown? barryclark/jekyll-now#459 (comment)

[timdiggins]

I started on this with approach of making rinku an optional dependency as per ancient comment in gettalong/kramdown#306, and how I deal with this in other projects: Rinku.auto_link(Kramdown::Document.new(source, input: "GFM").to_html).html_safe.

I have got a test harness for this (with different gemfiles and different testcases), but when trying to implement it I can't see any way of hooking into the Kramdown::Converter::Html from here -- maybe because this is genuinely just a parser? Is the idea of just using rinku (which would be super fast, and independently tested) no longer applicable?

Any suggestions @ashmaroli @gettalong ?

[timdiggins]

FYI here is my test harness timdiggins@dc74432

[adoyle-h]

@ashmaroli @gettalong Can you help to fix this issue? Thanks