Open links in external browser about vmd HOT 9 CLOSED

I agree with most of your reasoning. I think relative paths could just spawn a new instance of vmd, keeping the original in place. Links to non-local paths should probably just be opened in the browser. What do you think?

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I think relative paths could just spawn a new instance of vmd, keeping the original in place.

Brilliant!

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I agree it would be great if we can navigate between sections inside vmd and open external sites in the default browser.

I'm not really fan with creation of a new instance. If you write a doc with a table of content you don't want to open a new vmd window.

It could be a parameter at launch vmd --book table-of-content.md

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@aubinlorieux that seems like a fair use case. Think it would make sense to have it be the default behavior since I can't think of any use case where it would be blocking. Maybe adding shift + click to open a new window would be nice. That way vmd also stays consistent with existing browser behavior.

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Maybe adding shift + click to open a new window would be nice.

Yes it would be nice !

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I agree that it can be weird if relative links to other Markdown documents spawn a new instance / window. But if any links other than same-page-jumps between sections open in the same window there has to be a way to get back to the previous document. Personally I really like that vmd has no buttons and such.

Leveraging Shift + Click, or the middle mouse button may be an option to provide alternative behaviors. Good idea.

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You could add global shortcuts to handle back/next buttons without adding any additional UI.

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Just checking to see if there yet exists a feature that works for section links/internal links. I've been trying to make a functional table of contents without having to use a browser, but nothing's really worked yet. I'm rather new to Markdown, though.

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@DeeplyUncertain until a solution is added to vmd consider using shiba which offers internal linking between local markdown documents as well as internal hash links within a single document.

More info in the usage documentation.

Hopefully that helps you.

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