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Free external links (without [ and ]) are currently not highlighted.

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Change 230513 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pastakhov):
add highlighting of free external links (v 3.1.9)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/230513

Change 230513 merged by jenkins-bot:
add highlighting of free external links (v 3.1.9)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/230513

Now it is looking for free external links only from start line and after a space character. Is it ok?
For example link will not be highlighted:

wikitext (https://meta.wikimedia.org/) wikitext

It is possible to resolve, but it will reduce the performance.
Should we to fix it?

Free external links not highlighted in table also

Niharika lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.Nov 7 2017, 11:57 PM
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Now it is looking for free external links only from start line and after a space character. Is it ok?
For example link will not be highlighted:

wikitext (https://meta.wikimedia.org/) wikitext

It is possible to resolve, but it will reduce the performance.
Should we to fix it?

I think that's acceptable.