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kmwallio / ThiefMD

The markdown editor worth stealing. Inspired by Ulysses, based on code from Quilter
https://thiefmd.com/
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Shortcut for links #102

Closed TheNomad11 closed 3 years ago

TheNomad11 commented 3 years ago

When blogging, you use lots of links to other websites. What about adding a shortcut CTRL + L for example? It would be useful if the text that is used as link text gets displayed in a different color as the link itself. Currently both are displyed in the same color which makes reading hard. Thanks a lot for developing this app, it is about to become one of my favorites!!

kmwallio commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, I could see this being useful.

If we implement this, I'm thinking if there's no text selected, present a pop-up for text and a URL. If there is text selected, if it looks like a URL, insert [cursor_here](https://selected-url.ext) and if it's not a URL, put the cursor in the parentheses instead.

Does this fit what you had in mind, or is there a different workflow you'd prefer?

TheNomad11 commented 3 years ago

Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. That would be perfect. Thanks alot!

kmwallio commented 3 years ago

This is currently what I have prototyped. A lot of applications use Ctrl+K as the shortcut key, so I currently have it set to that for consistency.

Instead of showing a Pop-over, ThiefMD will insert the mark-up. Pressing the Tab key will switch from the link text to the URL (and if you're at the end of some markup, it'll go out of the markup).

Ctrl+K shortcut scenarios

TheNomad11 commented 3 years ago

Perfect, thanks a lot! I found many apps use Ctrl+L but actually it does not matter so much. L = link sounds more logical. Do you what K refers to?

kmwallio commented 3 years ago

I'm not 100% sure what K is supposed to refer to. I always remember it as linK or the k sound in anchor.

TheNomad11 commented 3 years ago

Aha, ok, good idea, I try to remember it that way as well, then

kmwallio commented 3 years ago

Currently both are displayed in the same color which makes reading hard.

@TheNomad11, we added an Experimental Mode to help with readability around links and images. Images will always have the ![alt-desc] displayed, but links will just show their text. If the theme has links the same color as text, links will be displayed as [link text].

Let me know if this helps with the readability problem. If not, I'll try to think of something.