[Bug] Wikilinks in the Preview Pane

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Michael Raess

September 17, 2019 20:26

Clicking a [[WikiLink]] in the Editor Pane and in the Preview Pane resulted for me (using build 33) in different behaviors:

1a - Editor Pane: An existing note is being opened, if the file extension matches the one set for new notes in the Preferences

1b - Editor Pane: A new note is being created, using the file extension specified in the Preferences, if the filename doesn't yet exist or has a different file extension. Clicking [[foo]] might therefore create foo.md, even if the file foo.txt already exists in the folder.

2 - Preview Pane: A new file with the file extension specified in the Preferences is being created, irrespective of the fact that a file with the same extension may already exist. So empty duplicates may show up in the file browser.

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  Michael Raess

  September 17, 2019 20:29

  One more thing: [[WikiLinks]] contained in ## Headers do not show up in the Preview Pane.

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  Brett

  September 19, 2019 16:11

  They do, unless the wiki link is the last (or only) thing in the headline. This is because in MultiMarkdown you can use square brackets after a headline to create a custom anchor, e.g.

      ## My headline [alt-anchor]

  Reasonably, we could look at differentiating between single and double square brackets in headers, but that may be a change to MMD and Fletcher would have to weigh in on it.

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  Michael Raess

  September 25, 2019 12:55 Edited

  OK, this whole custom anchor thing may explain some of the behaviors that I see and struggle with regarding the inconsistent handling of WikiLinks between Editor and Preview Panes.

  So, if I understand correctly, I create an anchor and link to it like this:

  ``` # My Headline [my-anchor]

  [Some content] 

  [my-anchor]

  ```

  In my testing this will create a link to the anchor in the headline that works only in the Preview Pane, but not in the Editor Pane.

  [[WikiLinks]], on the other hand, create links to other documents in the library. They currently work as expected in the Editor Pane but not in the Preview Pane, where they sometimes open to the linked document and sometimes duplicate it as an empty copy.

  Could the reason for that be that the Preview Pane cannot resolve sufficiently between text anchors and WikiLinks?

  I should maybe mention that I always have the Preview Pane visible and heavily use WikiLinking for navigation between files.

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  Fletcher Penney

  October 17, 2019 23:45

  Sorry for the delay.

   

  Yes -- `[my-anchor]` is an anchor, which is not active in the editor (it doesn't link to an addressable location, such as a web page, that can be opened in a browser or other application.

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  Fletcher Penney

  November 05, 2019 20:19

  Fixed for next version.

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  Michael Raess

  December 16, 2019 21:18

  Wikilinks are not rendered as links / are not functional in table cells in the preview pane

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  Brett

  December 16, 2019 21:39

  Michael Raess fixed for next update, thanks!

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