Refactoring one line links into wikilinks
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Previously I had setup a feature of my website to expand one line links into a card. This was not a standard, even to the point that some formatters wrap the...

Date: May 31, 2024

Previously I had setup a feature of my website to expand one line links into a card. This was not a standard, even to the point that some formatters wrap the links with , thus breaking my custom plugin. Moving to the wikilink standard will allow my markdown posts to work accross more site builders without custom integrations.

Expand One Line Links </expand-one-line-links/>

What is a wikilink
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Wikilinks are standard to a lot of wikis written in markdown.

markdown-it-wikilinks <https://github.com/jsepia/markdown-it-wikilinks#readme>

The wikilink syntax is a slug wrapped in double square brackets.

[code]
  [[ slug ]]

Marksman lsp will even autocomplete these for you, its pretty sweet.

NOTE
│ [code]
│    I recently implemented hover for wikilinks and and am pretty stoked about the
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│ result. Check this one out sick wikilink hover </sick-wikilink-hover/>.

Vim Quickfix
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You could use vimgrep to fill your quickfix list will all of the one line links but I am less familiar with vimgrep and kept missing posts for some reason, I think it was something in my file glob missing some directories.

I chose to use cexpr to fill my quickfix list using a command that outputs a vimgrep format filename:line:col:msg

[code]
  :cexpr system('rg ^<https -t md --vimgrep .')

This filled my quickfix list with all of the one line links.

Vim cdo
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Now all I needed to do was to run a substitution command on every line in the quickfix list. This one features the one eyed fighting kirby that I learned from the primeagen [[ thoughts-200 ]].

[code]
  :cdo s/\(^https:\/\/waylonwalker.com\/\)\(.*\)/[[ \2 ]]

This converts all of the full links into a slug wrapped in double square brackets.

More
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There was a bit more to the full refactor, for instance some had a til/ preix, some were for youtube, and some were not pointed to my site.