I was wondering if anyone might have a recommendation for a package to enable adding of links to a text.
I am looking for a feature similar to Cmd+K to quickly add a link to a selected text, but I am not aware of the most appropriate package to do that.
Any pointers would be helpful. Thank you!
Can you show me an example of what the file looks like and what text you would like to turn into a link? maybe a before and after, I might be able to help.
Thanks for taking a look!
Not sure I am explaining this right, but I would like to hyperlink the text shown below.
Eventually it should appear in this format - https://cloudup.com/cp41Pzkp17y
Does that make sense? Basically I would like to create HTML (hyperlinks) rapidly using keyboard shortcuts.
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You can achieve that with a snippet 
<snippet>
<content><![CDATA[
<a href="${1}">${SELECTION}</a>
]]></content>
</snippet>
I saved it as link.sublime-snippet and bound it to this key binding
{ "keys": ["ctrl+f"], "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"name": "Packages/User/link.sublime-snippet"} },
Works great. Thanks for this tip about snippets! I never knew there were snippets and keybindings on Sublime Text 3.
If it’s okay, can I ask for a tip on how to auto-insert the clipboard content in the place of {1}. My search skills on Google are failing me.
Appreciate all your help!
If you want that functionality you would have to use a plugin instead.
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
import textwrap
def _prepare_template(template):
# Normalize line endings in the template.
template.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
# Remove common indent from all of the lines, but throw away the first
# line.
template = textwrap.dedent(template[1:])
# Throw away any trailing blank lines
return template.rstrip()
class LinkSnipCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
template = _prepare_template("""
<a href="${PASTED}">${SELECTED}</a>
""")
def run(self, edit):
selectedText = self.view.substr(self.view.sel()[0])
pasted = sublime.get_clipboard()
self.view.replace(edit, self.view.sel()[0], '')
self.view.run_command("insert_snippet", {
"contents": self.template,
"PASTED": pasted,
"SELECTED": selectedText
})
And create a key map
{ "keys": ["ctrl+f"], "command": "link_snip" },
As a note on the above, the insert_snippet command already knows how to expand the selected text into a variable named $SELECTION, and inserting a snippet while text is selected will automatically replace the selection with the snippet contents.
Thus a shorter version that does the same thing would be:
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class LinkSnipCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
self.view.run_command("insert_snippet", {
"contents": "<a href=\"${PASTED}\">${SELECTION}</a>",
"PASTED": sublime.get_clipboard()
})
It’s also possible to do the above as just a simple sublime-macro that executes insert_snippet and paste if you don’t want to mess with plugins at all.