Being able to add link to @mention manually

[muan]

Sometimes people don't have a GitHub profile, and I'd like to have @benbalter instead of @benbalter.

Looks like on .com it works as expected. However with jekyll-mentions I get:
<a href=‘https://github.com/benbalter’ class=‘user-mention’>@benbalter

[parkr]

Hey muan!

Does .com use HTML::Pipeline::MentionFilter? It could be that the generator is running during Jekyll's render process at the wrong time relative to what the MentionFilter expects (i.e. it is HTML when MentionFilter gets to it, rather than Markdown).

[benbalter]

Yep. Due to limitations in Jekyll, for now at least, we have to run the filter on the raw markdown, not the generated HTML, as we'd like. In the mean time, you could move the @ outside the link, or encode it as @.

gjtorikian/html-pipeline#100 and #1 for background.

[muan]

Thanks for the work around! ✨

[parkr]

@muan This should be fixed now that we're using HTML Pipeline properly ✨ ❤️