CODEWITHSUNDEEP
regexvisual-studio-codemarkdown
theq
theq

Reputation: 111

Hyperlinks for Markdown in VSCode

I want to change hyperlinks to Markdown Hyperlinks all at once.

For example I have (and more of them)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59030873/keyboard-shortcut-in-vscode-for-markdown-links
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59030873/keyboard-shortcut-in-vscode-for-markdown-links

and want to have:

[ask](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask)
[keyboard-shortcut-in-vscode-for-markdown-links](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59030873/keyboard-shortcut-in-vscode-for-markdown-links)  
[ask](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask)
[keyboard-shortcut-in-vscode-for-markdown-links](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59030873/keyboard-shortcut-in-vscode-for-markdown-links)

I already found (for keybindings.json)

{
    "key": "ctrl+q b",    // Lines 2 Array Only
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "args": {
      "snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/(.+)(\\r?(?=\\S))?/[]($1)/g}",
    },
    "when": "editorTextFocus && editorLangId == 'markdown'"
}

which does a lot, but maybe anybody can add or give me a possibility to find out myself:

tia

Upvotes: 1

Views: 292

Answers (1)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 182121

I don't think using a snippet will work (or I can't figure it out) because of your requirement to only change links if there is any text following the link. That makes TM_SELECTED_TEXT not work. But it can be done with a find and replace pretty easily.

I wrote an extension Find and Transform that you can use to save the find/replace for future use. Example keybinding:

{
    "key": "alt+q",                  // whatever keybinding you want
    "command": "findInCurrentFile",
    "args": {
            // "find": "(^https:.+\\/)(.*$)(\r?\n)(?=(?!https:))",   // if single line of text between links
            "find": "(.+\\/)(.*$)(\r?\n)(?=\\s*(?!https:)[\\s\\S]*^https:)",  // if multiple lines of text
            "replace": "[$2]($1$2)$3",
            "restrictFind": "selections"  // if you want to only find within selections
    },
    "when": "editorTextFocus && editorLangId == 'markdown'"
}

markdown links regex

I believe that satisfies your requirement that some text (I made it for any amount of lines of intervening text) be between links. And thus the last link - which may have text after it - but no following link - should not be transformed.

[If there is only ever one line of text between links, the regex could be simplified quite a bit.]

Upvotes: 1

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