Automatically turning raw links into hyperlinks

This might be a commonmark issue, I’m not sure. When I put a raw link like https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/ in a document, it doesn’t translate it into a link. I have to write [https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/](https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/). I would expect links to automatically become hyperlinks, similar to how it works in GitHub or Jupyter notebook Markdown.

[chrisjsewell]

Sure but personally I think it’s a bad idea and shouldn’t be encouraged. It can certainly be added as a markdown-it-py extension, but it will no doubt negatively affect performance, and will need to be rigorously tested that it actually picks up all url formats which is not a simple task

[chrisjsewell]

or even that use their own javascript auto-linking script.

Agree with the rest, but I wouldn’t advise that