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Remove URL if the title is a URL

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Reproduce the issue with the provided URL heading, then trace the generated TOC entry and verify that clicking it stays within the document rather than redirecting to the external URL.

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Description

bug

If my titles are URLs. E.g.:

My issue

Then the generated markdown will keep this URL in the TOC. So when I click on the TOC link I got redirected to the URL

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