Feature Request: Insert Link

[tdho...@gmail.com]

In Gmail, Microsoft Office, and other products, you can quickly insert a link on highlighted text using Ctrl - K (http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2011/10/20/link-like-lightning-ctrl-k.aspx). I would love to see functionality like this in WriteMonkey!!

[josip]

WM is a plain text editor. For such a feature to be possible wm would have to save in html or something like that. 

i.

[Tim Hopper]

Hi -

I was referring to a Markdown link. For example: you have a link in the clipboard, you highlight some text, press Ctrl - K, and the text URL is included with that text as a Markdown URL.

Possible?

Tim

[josip]

That is possible and not hard to achieve with the new plugin api.

i.

[Tim Hopper]

Cool. Hadn't come across plugin functionality yet. Will explore. 

Thanks for the awesome software.

Tim

[josip]

You must use the latest preview to run plugins. The quick&dirty solution for what you proposed is:

// Entry point event / use ctrl+E,L to fire

monkey.add_extendedShortcutFiredE(function(object, eventargs) {

if (eventargs.extendedKey == "L") {

insertLink();

}

});

insertLink = function() {

if (monkey.selectionLength > 0) {

var text = monkey.selectedText.Trim();

var link = System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetText(); // no checking if there is a valid link in a clipboard

monkey.selectedText = "[" + text + "](" + link + ")"; 

}

}; 

You should create new folder "Link" under the plugins dir, create file named "exe_Link.js" and copy the code in it. Re-run wm. Use CTRL+E,L to fire it up.

i.