How can I prevent automatic linking?

[Kevin Pacheco]

Sometimes when I enter a description or a comment that includes a UNIX path and filename such as "/etc/profile.d/foo.sh", the "foo.sh" portion automatically turns into an underlined link after I click the "Save" button, so it looks like this:

/etc/profile.d/foo.sh

How can I stop this from happening?

[Alexis Robert · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kevin Pacheco, 

Trello will automatically convert some content as you mentioned with Markdown, a simple language to format text. You can't disable it completely, but you have workarounds to remove it as explained in this page.

For instance, to avoid foo.sh being converted into a link to http://foo.sh, you shoud add three backticks (```) at the beginning and end of the block of text.

Let me know if this helps, 

--Alexis

[Stef]

I only realized how useful backticks were when I had to use them for sharing content on Slack. Became a godsend for me.