Links lose their titles

[calebdw]

Hello!

Currently, markdown links ([foo](https://foo.bar)) lose their titles and the actual link is shown italicized and underlined:

However, this removes context---oftentimes the link by itself doesn't tell me much. The title is there to explain the link or to hide away a lengthy url.

I have two ideas off the top of my head:

1. Show the title instead of the link, and open the link when the title is clicked on (would an actual link be possible in the terminal?)
2. If 1) is too complication / not doable, then show both, e.g., (the particular styling could be adjusted of course):
   

Thanks!

[DrunkenToast]

Show the title instead of the link, and open the link when the title is clicked on (would an actual link be possible in the terminal?)

This is a thing, there are ansi codes for it. But afaik, support for it in terminals is very sparse. printf '\e]8;;http://example.com\e\\This is a link\e]8;;\e\\\n' apparently works but none of my terminals support clicking it.

[mfontanini]

I'm curious where showing this makes sense. People won't be running your presentations, at most they'll be opening the PDF output. I agree this is removing information that's present in markdown but also I don't see why you'd want to include this. It's mostly styling so you can always write

* Visit **my blog** [](https://my-blog.com).

And give it the style that you want. I chose to ignore the title in links because I honestly didn't see the point. Even in the PDF output you'd want to see the link. e.g. when you watch a presentation and they have references in a slide, you see plain links, not a link hidden behind some text.

[calebdw]

Hmm, what if you automatically gave the title some styling (like an underline/bold or both etc) if it's included? Given that this is markdown it would make it easier to copy/paste to/from other markdown documents

E.g.,

* Visit [my blog](https://my-blog.com).

• Visit my blog (https://my-blog.com)