Option to only show ellipsis of a trim has taken place.

Can confirm, smart trim is stripping all link options, meaning stuff like:

query
fragment
absolute
alias
external
language
https
base_url
prefix
script
entity_type
entity

I would suggest adding something like $link_options = $uri['options'];

The 3 year old patch in #3 to smart_trim.module does not apply to the latest smart_trim 7.x-1.x-dev and needs to be re-rolled.

Checking patch smart_trim.module...
error: while searching for:
        $uri = entity_uri($entity_type, $entity);
        // But wait! Don't add a more link if the field ends in <!--break-->
        if ($uri && $settings['more_link'] && strpos(strrev($output), strrev('<!--break-->')) !== 0) {
          $extension .= l(t('@more_text', array('@more_text' => $settings['more_text'])), $uri['path'], array('html' => TRUE, 'attributes' => array('class' => array('more-link'))));
        }

        $output_appended = preg_replace('#^(.*)(\s?)(</[^>]+>)$#Us', '$1' . $extension . '$3', $output);

        //check if the regex did anything. if not, append manually
        if ($output_appended == $output) $output_appended = $output . $extension;

        // If linking to content is selected the trimmed text will have tags
        // removed from the trimmed text. Need to find a more elegant way of

error: patch failed: smart_trim.module:126
error: smart_trim.module: patch does not apply