diff --git a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/plugin/Renderer.scala b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/plugin/Renderer.scala
index 16fd533..b4c333e 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/plugin/Renderer.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/plugin/Renderer.scala
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import gitbucket.core.controller.Context
 import gitbucket.core.service.RepositoryService
 import gitbucket.core.view.Markdown
+import gitbucket.core.view.helpers.urlLink
 import play.twirl.api.Html
 
 /**
@@ -33,12 +34,7 @@
 
 object DefaultRenderer extends Renderer {
   override def render(request: RenderRequest): Html = {
-    import request._
-    Html(
-      s"<tt>${
-        fileContent.split("(\\r\\n)|\\n").map(xml.Utility.escape(_)).mkString("<br/>")
-      }</tt>"
-    )
+    Html(s"""<tt><pre class="plain">${urlLink(request.fileContent)}</pre></tt>""")
   }
 }
 
@@ -51,4 +47,4 @@
   enableRefsLink: Boolean,
   enableAnchor: Boolean,
   context: Context
-)
\ No newline at end of file
+)
diff --git a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala
index 6f38ccb..41088aa 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala
@@ -346,10 +346,10 @@
   }
 
   // This pattern comes from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4390768/1771641 (extract-url-from-string)
-  private[this] val detectAndRenderLinksRegex = """(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,13}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))""".r
+  private[this] val urlRegex = """(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,13}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))""".r
 
-  def detectAndRenderLinks(text: String, repository: RepositoryInfo)(implicit context: Context): String = {
-    val matches = detectAndRenderLinksRegex.findAllMatchIn(text).toSeq
+  def urlLink(text: String): String = {
+    val matches = urlRegex.findAllMatchIn(text).toSeq
 
     val (x, pos) = matches.foldLeft((collection.immutable.Seq.empty[Html], 0)){ case ((x, pos), m) =>
       val url  = m.group(0)
@@ -361,8 +361,7 @@
     }
     // append rest fragment
     val out = if (pos < text.length) x :+ HtmlFormat.escape(text.substring(pos)) else x
-
-    decorateHtml(HtmlFormat.fill(out).toString, repository)
+    HtmlFormat.fill(out).toString
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/repo/files.scala.html b/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/repo/files.scala.html
index 442ee8b..f3e64db 100644
--- a/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/repo/files.scala.html
+++ b/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/repo/files.scala.html
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     @if(pathList.isEmpty) {
       @repository.repository.description.map { description =>
         <p class="pc" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">
-          <span class="normal muted">@Html(helpers.detectAndRenderLinks(description, repository))</span>
+          <span class="normal muted">@Html(helpers.decorateHtml(helpers.urlLink(description), repository))</span>
         </p>
       }
     }
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/assets/common/css/gitbucket.css b/src/main/webapp/assets/common/css/gitbucket.css
index b0eb58b..b5d8c64 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/assets/common/css/gitbucket.css
+++ b/src/main/webapp/assets/common/css/gitbucket.css
@@ -584,6 +584,11 @@
   font-size: 12px;
 }
 
+div.markdown-body pre.plain {
+  background: white;
+  font-size: 14px;
+}
+
 #readme {
   margin-top: 20px;
 }