editor: bare markdown links do not render as one might expect in the preview panel

[fool]

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

feature - but some might think it a bug.

- What is the current behavior?

currently, when you use a bare link like https://a.b in markdown, it renders as an unclickable https//a.b in the preview pane of the editor. However, most markdown viewers (github, as well as hugo and other SSG's) will render that as a clickable link. The editor does not and this is not a huge inconvenience or arguably even a misbehavior - but it does diminish the "WYSIWYG" experience vs what I believe might be the common real-world behavior.

- What is the expected behavior?

It'd be great if bare links (https://a.b NOT [document](https://a.b)) were clickable and styled as such in the preview pane.

- Please mention your CMS, node.js, and operating system version.

1.0.3/v6.12.3/Ubuntu 14.04 (netlify defaults)

- Please link or paste your config.yml below if applicable.

No type or widget customization in our yml.

[erquhart]

Yeah that was disabled here: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/commit/fddbf8f7f02c96fa4818cc5d2638e32531cc2491

Good point, SSG's are going to generally convert, so we should too.

[verythorough]

I think you'd want to be sure that the preview could be configured not to convert, though, too.

[tech4him1]

Good point, SSG's are going to generally convert, so we should too.

@erquhart Do you have any specific examples? I'd expect my MD to come out without extra formatting 😄.

[erquhart]

Hugo is one, and I've seen others (which I'm assuming is why Remark does this automatically). GitHub does it automatically too: https://www.olddvdscreensaver.com

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[martinjagodic]

Closing as stale and/or outdated.