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[meichthys]

zadam/trilium#1021

[meichthys]

Relevant comment on CKEditor issue:
ckeditor/ckeditor5#1944 (comment)

This is still probably not worth investigating until CKEditor officially supports it, but i wanted to comment here for reference anyway.

[maphew]

Extracts from the original thread which I think are most relevant, and some thoughts on them:

A (perhaps not perfect, but good) idea could be to limit links to headers. A link would be created from existing headers, and then when the link is followed, the front-end could dynamically evaluate the current headers into a slug and see if any of them match the link provided. If none match, a pop-up notice could be shown to the user that the link is out of date and suggest they fix it (and then just leave the view at top of the note, as normally done).

I think this is similar to how a lot of web tools work for markdown headers. Anchors are automatically created from headers in a slug style (i.e. "This is a header" would become an anchor #this-is-a-header).

I think this is an excellent idea.

What about duplicate heading matches? Would we just link to the first one in the document?

Seems reasonable.

...maybe append the slug with -2, -3, etc.?

This could work, but I would refrain because it means something has to keep track of the "as written" vs "as linked" and I'm not sure the added work and maintenance would be worth it.

The problem with the auto-generated anchors is that they are extremely fragile - a simple rewording/typo will break the link. IMHO a much better solution is to explicitly create an anchor which will be stable, but that needs some CKEditor support.

Yes easily broken, but the page or note part of the link could still work, so a person would be in the vicinity of the broken link if not at actually at it. For example of a header of Objective was pluralised to Objectives a link ../foobaz-note#objective could still carry you to ../Foobaz-note. Not perfect, but still valuable. Meaning: I don't think waiting for CKEditor support is a necessity.