Associate link with topic: A discussion about linking topics to external URLs. hellekin appreciates the feature that associates a link with a topic when pasting a URL into the topic title box, but notes that it’s not possible to associate a link with an existing topic. zogstrip requests clarification on the term “associate link,” which hellekin explains. ChrisBeach interprets the suggestion as enabling the editing of existing topics to include link associations. erlend_sh agrees that the current behavior should be changed, while hellekin seeks the code responsible for the link association logic, also noting that “reply as a linked topic” doesn’t trigger the association.
When pasting a link to a new topic title, this link is associated to the topic, even if the title is changed manually. This is a great feature. But it seems not feasible to associate a link to an existing topic. Associated links enable to distinguish local topics from externally focused topics.
Is there a way to associate a link to a topic after topic creation? Can someone provide pointers to the relevant code?
What do you mean by “associate link”?
You know, when you create a topic by pasting an URL into the topic title box.
I think the suggestion here is to be able to edit an existing topic (that wasn’t started by pasting a URL), and to get the extra goodies you get when pasting a URL (during the edit).
I actually thought the standard behaviour we landed on here was “show link formatting if the very start of the topic is a link” but it does appear like the only way to achieve this special formatting is by pasting the link in the title bar.
IMO we should change this.
I just noticed that if I “reply as a linked topic” and paste a link as the topic title, this does not fire the link association either. Can you please point to the code responsible for this logic?