This took me a while to figure out, and it's possible this is a "won't fix", but curious to hear your thoughts on this issue.

I use a number of autorefs in the following format:

[`some.identifier`][]

I'm not sure if that's officially supported, but it has always worked well for me, making properly hyperlinked text wrapped in <code>. I recently installed mkdocs-gallery which broke this behavior, and I eventually tracked it down to the addition of pymdownx.inlinehilite to the config. So, with the following config, the above autoref will fail:

site_name: My Docs
markdown_extensions:
  - pymdownx.inlinehilite
plugins:
  - mkdocstrings

I tracked that down to this line:

if pymdownx.inlinehilite is not included in the config, identifier will equal 'some.identifier' at that line, re.search will not match, and the link will be created. If inlinehilight is included though, identifier will look something like '\x02wzxhzdk:1\x03', and the search will hit preventing the link.

Is this something that you can imagine a fix for? Or is the [`some.identifier`][] syntax just not supported?

thanks!