alt Hacker NewsAnything that doesn't force you to remember arbitrary ordering - square brackets first? Or parentheses? It's the textual equivalent of plugging in usb upside down.
An alternative would be to simply use square brackets for both clauses of the link.
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simonkagedal • yesterday at 9:30 PM
Someone (maybe on this site) suggested to think of the bottom bars of the square brackets around the linked text to kind of frame the underline. Somehow worked really well for me, haven’t forgotten the syntax since.
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setopt • yesterday at 8:00 PM
> An alternative would be to simply use square brackets for both clauses of the link.
For comparison, Org-mode uses [[LINK][DESCRIPTION]] instead of [DESCRIPTION](LINK).
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I think it’s a natural outgrowth of the way links are commonly provided in plaintext, like so much other markdown.
> The details can be found at my website (https://example.com).
The problem with this is that if you want to render this “pretty”, there’s no way to know whether the link should be “my website” or “website” or even the whole sentence. So you add brackets to clarify.
> The details can be found at [my website](https://example.com).
There are certainly alternatives but I don’t think any of them are more natural, or memorable for that matter.