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URL / Image Links StackExchange Style

Open RoyiAvital opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Hello,

Could you please add an option for adding URL / Image links in StackExchange Style?

Currently URL is [title of the URL](address of the URL).
Yet in cases the same URL is used many times and in case of long URL's this is not efficient and clutter the text.

In StackExchange they have nice solution:

This is samples text.
This [text of URL 001][1] and this is [text of URL 002][2]

  [1]: https://stackexchange.com/
  [2]: http://microsoft.com

They always keep the numbering according to their appearance in the text. Namely [1] will always be the first link used, etc...

This is the way to go when handling a lot of links in the same MarkDown document.

Any chance you implement this?

RoyiAvital avatar Sep 01 '17 13:09 RoyiAvital

This already works for me. I think it is a standard Markdown feature. If it does not work then please send me a screenshot.

mitya57 avatar Sep 04 '17 15:09 mitya57

If I do it manually it works.

I meant adding a wizard which automatically creates this form of linking as it happen in the StackExchange editor.

Something like "Organize Links" which replaces the regular form [URL Text](URL Address) with the above form.

RoyiAvital avatar Sep 04 '17 16:09 RoyiAvital