URL Auto-Reference Gedit Plugin

March 6, 2014

Markdown is amazing! Just follow a couple of conventions and you get well-formatted HTML documents out of plain text. It’s been used by GitHub and StackOverflow. You can even try it online here.

However if you prefer reference-style links to keep your main text free of those long URLs, it may require some extra work creating a separate list of references like the one below.

This is [an example link][1] and this is [another one][2].

[1]: https://github.com/
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/

To make that simpler I have created URL Auto-Reference, a Gedit plugin that transforms pasted URLs into numbered references. Simply type a [ and ctrl+v your URL! It manages the numbering and creates the URL list automatically. Give it a try!

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