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plibither8 / refined-hacker-news

✨ Hacker News, but refined — Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better
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Feature request: Linkify footnotes and markdown links #35

Closed christopher-dG closed 5 years ago

christopher-dG commented 5 years ago

Footnotes:

This [1] is a good website.
[1] https://github.com

Here it would be great to be able to click on the first [1] and be taken to github.com.

Markdown:

[This](https://github.com) is a good website.

Here it would be great to render a link the way it appears here.

It might also be nice to just render all comments as Markdown, but that's a separate feature...

plibither8 commented 5 years ago

Hi!

This feature won't be easy to implement and it certainly won't work always. The thing about these numbered-reference links is that there is no "one" way or "correct" way to type them, which leads to many many different variations. Many times the number [1] does not correspond to the word to its left either. So there are many different exceptions there too.

If you take a look at the keybindings for comments, when a comment with these reference links is highlighted and suppose it has something like this:

This [1] is a good website.
[1] https://github.com

Then you can press the 1 key on your keyboard and the link to github.com will be opened.

Thanks again, and cheers!