mdrefine

links/reversed ​

Reports likely reversed links such as (text)[https://example.com]. Fixing one would turn literal text into a link, so there is no automatic repair.

Problem rule, reported only. Presets: none. Dialects: all. Options: none.

Reported:

markdown
See (the guide)[./guide.md].

Not reported:

markdown
See (the guide)[guide].

[guide]: ./guide.md

Edge cases and advanced usage ​

Details: the bracketed part must contain no whitespace or brackets and look like a destination: a scheme followed by ://, mailto:, an email-like address, a slash anywhere, a leading #, or a final dot extension of one to ten ASCII letters or digits, starting with a letter (optionally followed by a query or fragment).

Not checked:

  • A parenthesis immediately after an identifier character (a Unicode letter, number or combining mark, _, or $), which is call or subscript syntax, as in f(x)[i.j].
  • Defined labels, matched with the renderer's Unicode case folding and whitespace normalization.
  • Citations such as (Smith 2020)[1], cross-references such as (see above)[note], versions such as (see)[v1.2], and numeric references such as (see)[p.12] and (1, 2)[0.5].
  • Footnotes, wikilinks, task markers, code, math, HTML, text inside authored links and destinations, and parentheses inside a bare URL, such as https://example.com/(a)[b.md].