Composer - Email is not turned to a clickable link, and GitHub link is not parsed to number

[kbecciv]

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Version Number: 1.4.39-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause _ internal
Slack conversation:

Issue found when executing PR #35837

Action Performed:

Part 1 (Email):

1. Open a chat
2. Enter email address in composer (test@gmail.com)
3. Hover over the email & try to click the link

Part 2 (GitHub):

1. Open a chat
2. Enter a GitHub link in the composer (Live Markdown Preview #34292)

Expected Result:

• Email should turn to clickable malito link
• Github link should turn to number clickable link (Live Markdown Preview #34292)

Actual Result:

• Email doesn't turn to clickable malito link
• Github link doesn't turn to number clickable link (Live Markdown Preview #34292)

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Add any screenshot/video evidence

Bug6373589_1707484990756.Github.mp4

Bug6373589_1707484990742.Email.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @dangrous (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[kbecciv]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsb
CC @quinthar

[Skalakid]

Hi, thanks for reporting a bug. Links inside live markdown text input shouldn't be clickable. Also links from GitHub shouldn't be shortened into numbers. We pasted wrong test cases into PR description, I will correct them

cc @tomekzaw

[dangrous]

@Skalakid does that mean we can close this issue - i.e. not a bug?

Thanks!