[Feature Requests] Make links clickable

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Pash Shocky

April 08, 2021 13:24 Edited

Noticed that links are clickable in nvALT, but they are not in nvUltra.

nvUltra only has links clickable only when they are surrounded with the markdown syntax [description](url)

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  Fletcher Penney

  April 18, 2021 12:42

  This has been addressed elsewhere.

   

  Markdown URLs are clickable if you have that preference enabled (Preferences->Editing->Other). (e.g. `<http://foo.com/>`)

   

  Apple's "Smart Links" (e.g. `http://foo.com/`) only work transiently while typing, unlike other Apple data detector items (e.g. phone numbers).  This is due to differences in the way macOS handles them.

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  Steve Daviss

  April 18, 2021 14:27

  I think Pash is referring particularly to links w/o http in front, which are clickable in nvAlt as soon as two non-numerical strings are separated only be a period.

  It is quite useful to make foo.com clickable, as well as http://foo.com. The potential side effects I have found to be minimal and acceptable.

  And, it appears that the way Brett implemented is not to hyperlink just any two (or more) strings separated by periods, but there seems to be a list of terminating strings that trigger it, though I cannot determine the logic. For example, these turn into hyperlinks: foo.com, foo.co, foo.bo. These do not: foo.c, foo.con, foo.ob. He probably has whitelisted all the approved TLDs.

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  Fletcher Penney

  April 18, 2021 16:18

  As above -- these are handled by Apple's Smart Links, which aren't properly compatible with nvUltra.  nvUltra isn't a rich text editor in the same way that nvAlt is.

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