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Auto-linking @autocomplete-able items in GitHub-flavored Markdown

In Markdown, it’d sure be swell if GitHub rendered items that normally @autocomplete across the site. Example, I wanted to attribute a user (or anything with a github.com/github.io URL for that matter), like so:

[@Schacon](https://github.com/schacon): [GitHub Flow](http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html)

It would then render in Markdown on GitHub as:

screen shot 2013-10-30 at 12 52 36 am

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