Perlmonks tags have a unique syntax for abbreviating URLs. I get plenty of messages from people informing me that I should switch: 
<a href=http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=646560>here</a>

[download]
to something like : 
[id://646560|here]

[download]
but I cannot remember the right syntax. And I dont enjoy having to remember yet another HTML shorthand: I already have Markdown, Asciidoc, GoogleCode, MoinMoin, reStructuredText and more to confuse me.

So instead of telling us what to put there, it should be an easy parse to transform it.

Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality

In reply to auto-simplify URLs by princepawn

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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