Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know tracks supported that.
I added a note to the ticket that this works using textile notation in case
anyone has the same question in the future.
-james

On 3/21/07, bsag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue Mar 20 14:17:37 UTC 2007, James Kebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Its early in the day and my brain isn't in gear yet, so I'm not sure I
> understand what you're proposing - is it that Tracks do nothing to
auto-link
> strings that look like urls because its not that hard to do the html
markup
> oneself? (if you know html)

No, I didn't mean mark it up with HTML, but with Textile

"link":http://google.com

I don't think that's too hard, and as I said, you get a much neater note.

cheers,

bsag

>
> On 3/20/07, bsag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 20 Mar 2007, at 2:04, James Kebinger wrote:
> >
> > > I threw some amazon links into todo notes fields today and was
> > > annoyed that they didn't become links - I see ticket281 has been
> > > open for a while. Is there a consensus on enabling textile or
> > > markdown syntax for notes fields vs finding and converting links
> > > with a regex etc vs doing nothing? I'm willing to do the legwork to
> > > get any of these options done if we can make a decision on which
> > > one to go with.
> >
> > I'd actually rather manually mark up links with Textile or Markdown.
> > It's a tiny manual overhead versus quite a lot of processing time.
> > Links actually look much nicer if you mark them up because they're
> > more compact, and you can give them a meaningful name (particularly
> > useful for Amazon URLs which are otherwise not very human-readable.
> >
> > But I'm open to suggestions. I think doing it manually is very little
> > work (I tend to mark them up without thinking) for a nicer result.

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