Faster linking with [[

Ah gotcha, you’re totally right. I was just considering the use case of creating new links from typing, not from existing text.

I’ve made a note for us improve this behaviour in a subsequent release. So if an additional space character won’t be added if already present.

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Even with the limit I find the jumping around kind of jarring to be honest :sweat_smile: Not the end of the world, the addition brought a much better flow for me, but would be nice to see some improved approach here

Hi @fuzzy.beach, can you provide a gif of what you find jarring? Not sure I’m following here. Happy to look into improving this flow further.

@tobias, I was referencing the jumping between the Link objects created with [[, using the autocomplete and the raw markdown version of those. It’s nice to be able to re-alias these by changing the text in the square brackets, but the jump around when moving the cursor on the keyboard is not so nice :smile:

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Thanks for the follow up @fuzzy.beach. This is still much better than the previous card links where we always displayed the UUID’s, but I can understand how’d you want this to further improve.

We could look into overriding the Alt ← / → keys so they jump to the other side of the link? No guarantees on this, as I haven’t look into how feasible that is, but would that work for you?

Yeah, It’s definitely nicer not seeing the uuid, the jumps are not an easy problem to solve either.

I think that could work! Assuming one could still alter the link alias name somehow.

Aha, I edited my previous post so it’s clearer. The idea’s is that you just don’t hold down Alt to edit the link :wink: (still no guarantees we will be able to modify this though)

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