a response i received multiple times following yesterday’s deployment of comment previews on bugzilla.mozilla.org was “wait, bugzilla allows markup within comments now?”.

yes, and this has been the case for a very long time.  here’s a list of all the recognised terms on bugzilla.mozilla.org;

• bug number
  • links to the specified bug, if it exists. the href’s tooltip will contain the information about the bug
  • eg. “bug 40896''
• attachment number
  • links to the specified attachment, if it exists. the href’s tooltip will contain the information about the attachment
  • adds action buttons for [diff][details][review]
  • eg. “attachment 8374664''
• comment number
  • links to a comment in the current bug. “comment 0'' will link to the bug’s description
  • eg. “comment 12''
• bug number comment number
  • links to a comment in another bug.
  • eg. “bug 40896 comment 12''
• email addresses
  • linkified into a mailto: href
  • eg. “glob@mozilla.com”
• UUID crash-id or bp-crash-id
  • links to the crash-stats for the specified crash-id
  • eg. “UUID 56630b1a-0913-4b4e-b701-d96452140102'' or “bp-56630b1a-0913-4b4e-b701-d96452140102''
• CVE-number or CAN-number
  • links to the cve/can security release information on cve.mitre.org
  • eg. “CVE-2013-1733''
• rnumber
  • links to a svn.mozilla.org revision number
  • eg. “r1234''
• bzr commit messages
  • links to the revision on bzr.mozilla.org
  • see example here
• hg changesets: repository changeset revision
  • links to the changeset on hg.mozilla.org
  • eg. “mozilla-inbound changeset c7802c9d6eec”

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