Initiating markdown style link

[EricEWeir]

Just coming to pandoc markdown. In my previous experience—controlled by vimwiki, wiki.vim, and/or vim-markdown—doing <cr> with cursor on a word or visual selection of multiple words initiated a markdown style link—[abcd](abcd)—to a new file with the word or words as the title.

I am not getting that now. Is there something I can put in my .vimrc that will enable this in pandoc markdown?

FWIW, I am note a coder. I’m a writer vim enthusiast, appreciative of vim’s configurability, open to learning.