[texhax] What is an "smb:" link, why is \verb| ... | creating it, and how do I stop it?

[Martin Schröder]

2014-05-17 0:05 GMT+02:00 Douglas McKenna <doug at mathemaesthetics.com>:
> Why is the second of the above two lines a clickable link (hover over it and it
> says \verb|smb://Test| (as it does right here)) in the eventual PDF file?

That's something your pdf viewer does.

> What does ``smb:'' mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme

> If this is a feature (or bug), how do I turn it off (or work around it)?

Use a different pdf viewer.

Best
   Martin