Markdown plugin rendering WikiText links?

#1

I’ve got some Markdown content that I’ve imported into my wiki. The Markdown plugin has some configuration options around also rendering WikiText, which looks like it does what I need – I’d like [[Square Bracket Links]] to be linked.

renderWikiText is set to “true”, and renderWikiTextPragma has a default value:

\rules only html image macrocallinline syslink transcludeinline wikilink filteredtranscludeblock macrocallblock transcludeblock

Transclusion with {{Some Tiddler Title}} works. A macro transclude with the #inc-plugin works.

It says wikilink there, but links aren’t being linkified. Is there something special I need to do / can I enable WikiText linking in the Markdown plugin?

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#2

Does it work when it’s on it’s own line? My information may be dated, but I seem to recall that wikitext inside of markdown only worked when it was on it’s own line. But maybe there’s been some improvements since then.

#3

Only wikilinks seem to not work – macros and transclusion work fine, whether on their own line or not.

Just tried it, and syslinks link correctly, too. This feels like a setting somewhere…

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Hmm, I just tried the official demo: https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown/

And if CamelCase is turned on … it will link that. But it won’t link [[wikilinks]].

#4

I have solved it before, try this: https://gist.github.com/Gk0Wk/6fb9e3a20fb7c52224c60e18e1402b52

Overwrite the $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown/wrapper.js tiddler.

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#5

That did it, thank you!

Should we file an issue for this? That wikilink parsing code in the gist you linked works, but I imagine this is a bug in core code that needs upgrading. Especially the CamelCase linking does.

#6

Sounds like a bug. @Sttot might you be able to make a PR?

#7

Markdown parser of tw5 is based on Remarkable.js, a general Markdown-render library, so there’s no reason for it to recognize wikilink format. And I just attach a remarkable plugin (remarkable-wikilink on npmjs.com) to it.

@boris @jeremyruston Well, I have no idea whether this is a bug for tw5 because wikilink is indeed not a syntax supported by markdown. I can make a PR but I’m worried that some people do not like this feature enhancement.

#8

We added support for parsing Markdown text runs with the wikitext parser (renderWikiText = true), and as far as I know that mode is intended to support TW5-style linking.

#9

Yeah, this is my understanding. There’s a bug in the core logic somewhere. I filed an issue:

Stott’s code is wedged in at the Markdown layer, not in the WikiText parsing, so that’s where the bug is / fix would need to go.

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