Item1200: Unexpected result when link text contains email address

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I don't think the link text (on the right-hand side) should autolink.

If you use something like

[[mailto:foo@bar.com][text including a foo@bar.com email address]]

the result is not as expected. The result is in three parts:

Lots of text including a foo@bar.com email address

(the source for which looks like

<a href="mailto&#58;foo&#64;bar&#46;com">Lots of text including a <a href="mailto&#58;foo&#64;bar&#46;com">foo&#64;bar.com</a> email address</a>

• the expected link Lots of text including a
• a separate link for foo@bar.com
• the literal (unlinked ) string email address

Reproducible here at TWiki./org: v1.1.8

-- TWiki:Main/VickiBrown - 12 Jan 2009

I'm inclined to agree with Vicki on this one.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 04 Mar 2009

Changing the rendering order - processing square bracket links before email autolinking resolves the issue. The Square-bracket processing auto-escapes email addresses inside the link text. Fixed and added a unit test. Only committed to trunk for now - changing rendering order can be risky.

-- GeorgeClark - 21 Sep 2011

That didn't last long - got carried away with cherry-picking so this is applied to release 1.1. branch as well. All the rendering tests pass, so leaving it applied.

-- GeorgeClark - 22 Sep 2011