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Markdown Wiki-links preview

Markdown Wiki-links preview

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Enables wikilinks in the Markdown preview.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Markdown Wikilinks Preview

Allows wikilinks features within the VSCode markdown preview.

Uses a fork of a markdown-it plugin (original here In order to make linking markdown documents a bit more rewarding - The VSCode preview window now also shows wikilinks correctly.

This is still in very early development. If anything goes wrong, submit an issue or a PR.

Features

  • Enables highlighting of Wikilinks within the VSCode Markdown Preview. (Works with piped links as well!)
  • Allows clicking on those links to go to the referenced file's preview.

Limitations

  • When clicking a link inside the preview, only the preview will update; The file won't open in your editor.

  • Linking between files with different extensions (e.g. .markdown and .md) Will cause trouble.

    • Currently, this extension will append any link with a .md extension.

Roadmap

  • [X] User defined settings
    • [X] File type (.markdown, .mdx, etc.)
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