Autocomplete links in Markdown format

[Rasagy Sharma]

Hi everyone, I’m fairly new to TW, and wanted to use Markdown while having the ability to autocomplete links while creating a tiddler using the markdown format: [text](link).

I couldn’t find any reference on how to do this, so after a few trial & error, this approach worked out for me. Sharing it here for others like me who might come to the forum looking for tips.

Issue: With the official Markdown plugin, I lost the ability to get autocomplete for links (CTRL+L no longer works, no link button in the toolbar).

Steps I followed:

• Added official Markdown plugin + edit-ComptText

• Set comptext as the editor for new markdown files by creating $:/config/EditorTypeMappings/text/x-markdown and adding comptext as the content. (Thanks to Saq’s comment in a previous thread)

• Edited the edit-CompText config to have the following template*: { "pattern": "[[", "filter": "[all[tiddlers]!is[system]]", "start": "[](#", "end": ")", "startOffset" : 1 }

Now when I create a new markdown tiddler, typing [[ shows the autocomplete popup, adds it in markdown style: [](#tiddler-link) and places my cursor at the alias position.

You can just copy paste my config from my TW-instance if you’re not familiar with editing json files, or try it out there (it’s hosted via Github Pages).

Cheers,

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Rasagy

[Mark S.]

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