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##About

This userscript automatically converts raw Stack Exchange question URLs into the form `[title](link)` before submitting comments by grabbing their titles from the API. This is similar to conversion done natively on posts, and is in response to [this Meta request](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/89378). The script also tries to shorten links where appropriate, stripping out unnecessary URL content to conserve comment characters.

More information can be found in the SECommentLinkHelper section of [the README](http://rchern.github.com/StackExchangeScripts/readme.html).

###Download

[install / update script](https://github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/raw/master/SECommentLinkHelper.user.js) &ndash; [view source](https://github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/blob/master/SECommentLinkHelper.user.js)

###Updates

  - 2012-12-08: Thanks to feedback from [doncherry](http://stackapps.com/users/10487/doncherry), various parsing issues are now corrected. Of note is inclusion of proper support for conversion of comment links and `/a/###` short-form links.

###Platform

The script should work under all major userscript-supporting browsers. Please [file a bug](https://github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/issues) if you encounter any issues.

##Contact

[Tim Stone](http://stackapps.com/users/4746/tim-stone) actively maintains this script.

Feedback can be [given on GitHub](https://github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/issues), or by "@lerting" the maintainer on [Meta Stack Overflow chat](http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/89/the-tavern-general).

##Code

To fork the code, please visit the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts).

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