lib/PublicInbox/Linkify.pm |  6 ++++--
 t/linkify.t                | 10 ++++++++++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Linkify.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Linkify.pm
index 8e1728c71136c78de06af4d53603e54116496edb..93c468fe74839c6d2a0e818996e8a00680a70464 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Linkify.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Linkify.pm
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 sub new { bless {}, $_[0] }
 
 sub linkify_1 {
-	$_[1] =~ s!$LINK_RE!
+	$_[1] =~ s^$LINK_RE^
 		my $beg = $1 || '';
 		my $url = $2;
 		my $end = '';
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ 				$end = $1;
 			}
 		} elsif ($url =~ s/([\.,;])\z//) {
 			$end = $1;
+		} elsif ($url !~ /\(/ && $url =~ s/\)\z//) {
+			$end = ')';
 		}
 
 		# salt this, as this could be exploited to show
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ 		# only escape ampersands, others do not match LINK_RE
 		$url =~ s/&/&/g;
 		$_[0]->{$key} = $url;
 		$beg . 'PI-LINK-'. $key . $end;
-	!ge;
+	^ge;
 	$_[1];
 }
 
diff --git a/t/linkify.t b/t/linkify.t
index 99acf17d593830884b1533452bf2ceae9ef8cd28..041c15c73144efcd8c966ce08f71f7ed10c9e94f 100644
--- a/t/linkify.t
+++ b/t/linkify.t
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ 	$s = $l->linkify_2($s);
 	is($s, qq(<a\nhref="$u">$u</a>.), 'trailing period not in URL');
 }
 
+# handle URLs in parenthesized statements
+{
+	my $l = PublicInbox::Linkify->new;
+	my $u = 'http://example.com/';
+	my $s = "(see: $u)";
+	$s = $l->linkify_1($s);
+	$s = $l->linkify_2($s);
+	is($s, qq{(see: <a\nhref="$u">$u</a>)}, 'trailing ) not in URL');
+}
+
 {
 	my $l = PublicInbox::Linkify->new;
 	my $u = 'http://example.com/url-with-trailing-semicolon';