Brennen Bearnes

Yeah, that's fair. This clearly has users — I'll reopen and give some thought to a least-disruptive sort of solution. I'm loathe to expand VimWiki as a language too much...

Just a brief note that I'm thinking through some options here. Mostly by scribbling in a notebook about pros and cons, at the moment. Further updates as events warrant.

I bashed out a bit of a decision doc here. **Consider this a draft; it'll probably live somewhere else eventually.** I'm calling it a night, but wanted to put something...

Thanks @redongh. I updated my above decision doc comment with a few more notes and a new option, **add configuration for a set of filetypes to open in vim**. On...

> Letting the link work as `[Visible Name](relative-link-to-file.pdf)` without the file: tag is rendered by Github as well, as here->[Visible Name](https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/issues/relative-link-to-file.pdf). Which might be a small bonus to ppl who...

(Hope I don't sound too testy in the above. This is just one of those places with a ton of different conflicting needs and expectations build into the problem.)

Hmm, yeah, I couldn't seem to get this to work at first. Looking at the start of `follow_split()`: ```vim function! vimwiki#base#follow_link(split, ...) abort " Jump to link target (Enter press,...

Asked @MartyLake to write this one up after some IRC discussion. Seems like a fine idea. (This _may_ be a duplicate issue, but we haven't found the other one yet...

Ok, so see also: #1360 - "Slowdown when pressing Enter/o". In both cases, it looks like folding is the culprit. (Edit: Or maybe not, on #1360, after a closer read.)...

> I was also thinking about another function. If the user removes a sentence from the text containing a link, the reference-style link at the bottom remains. I will try...