Add :autolink: directive to suppress auto linking

lib/rdoc/code_object.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
+
+
+
 ##
 # Base class for the RDoc code tree.
 #
@@ -424,4 +427,19 @@ def suppressed?
     @suppressed
   end
 
+  ##
+  # Autolink in cross reference?
+
+  def autolink?
+    autolink = @metadata["autolink"]
+    if autolink
+      RDoc::Options.boolean(autolink, "autolink")
+    else
+      true
+    end
+  end
+
+  RDoc::Markup::PreProcess.register "autolink" do |directive, param|
+    ""
+  end
 end

lib/rdoc/markup/to_html_crossref.rb

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def init_link_notation_regexp_handlings
   # Creates a link to the reference +name+ if the name exists.  If +text+ is
   # given it is used as the link text, otherwise +name+ is used.
 
-  def cross_reference name, text = nil, code = true, rdoc_ref: false
+  def cross_reference name, text = nil, code = true, rdoc_ref: false, autolink: true
     lookup = name
 
     name = name[1..-1] unless @show_hash if name[0, 1] == '#'
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def cross_reference name, text = nil, code = true, rdoc_ref: false
       text ||= name
     end
 
-    link lookup, text, code, rdoc_ref: rdoc_ref
+    link lookup, text, code, rdoc_ref: rdoc_ref, autolink: autolink
   end
 
   ##
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def handle_regexp_CROSSREF(target)
       return name if name =~ /\A[a-z]*\z/
     end
 
-    cross_reference name, rdoc_ref: false
+    cross_reference name, rdoc_ref: false, autolink: false
   end
 
   ##
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def gen_url url, text
   ##
   # Creates an HTML link to +name+ with the given +text+.
 
-  def link name, text, code = true, rdoc_ref: false
+  def link name, text, code = true, rdoc_ref: false, autolink: true
     if !(name.end_with?('+@', '-@')) and name =~ /(.*[^#:])?@/
       name = $1
       label = $'
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ def link name, text, code = true, rdoc_ref: false
       path = ref ? ref.as_href(@from_path) : +""
 
       if code and RDoc::CodeObject === ref and !(RDoc::TopLevel === ref)
+        return text unless autolink or ref.autolink?
         text = "<code>#{CGI.escapeHTML text}</code>"
       end
 

test/rdoc/test_rdoc_code_object.rb

@@ -437,4 +437,13 @@ def test_suppress_eh
     assert @co.suppressed?
   end
 
+  def test_autolink
+    assert_predicate @c1, :autolink?, "default is true"
+
+    @c1.metadata["autolink"] = "false"
+    assert_not_predicate @c1, :autolink?
+
+    @c1.metadata["autolink"] = "true"
+    assert_predicate @c1, :autolink?
+  end
 end

test/rdoc/test_rdoc_markup_to_html_crossref.rb

@@ -47,6 +47,20 @@ def test_convert_CROSSREF_ignored_excluded_words
     assert_equal para("<a href=\"C1.html\">Constant</a>"), result
   end
 
+  def test_convert_CROSSREF_no_autolink
+    @c1.metadata["autolink"] = "false"
+
+    result = @to.convert 'C1'
+    assert_equal para("C1"), result
+
+    result = @to.convert '+C1+'
+    assert_equal para("<a href=\"C1.html\"><code>C1</code></a>"), result
+
+    # Explicit linking with rdoc-ref is not ignored
+    result = @to.convert 'Constant[rdoc-ref:C1]'
+    assert_equal para("<a href=\"C1.html\">Constant</a>"), result
+  end
+
   def test_convert_CROSSREF_method
     result = @to.convert 'C1#m(foo, bar, baz)'