Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Smart auto-linking of pasted URLs

I’m a bit of a keyboard jockey, where there’s a keyboard shortcut I’ll use that in preference to clicking UI elements with a mouse. Maybe it’s a bit old-school, but I find it to be faster and more efficient when writing in Markdown.

WikiPack provides GUI controls for most of it’s Markdown editor features, but also has keyboard shortcuts for things like bold & italic. Now, you can use the keyboard to insert links & images too!

Just paste a URL into the page, and WikiPack will take care of the rest for you. You can either position the cursor where you want the link/image to be inserted, or select some text and paste a URL over it. It knows whether the URL is to a webpage or an image, and creates the appropriate Markdown. This makes linking text to a URL really quick, and inserting images is now even more painless than before, I think it’s great.

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Give it a try, and let me know what you think. Hopefully, it won’t raise the ire of too many people who just want to paste URLs without turning it into a link dang nab it!


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