On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 11:59:19 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:07:52 PM UTC-5, Doug Walseth wrote:
> > Hello - 
> > 
> > I use VIM for my notes (with vim-notes plugin).  I would love it if I could 
> > shorten the display of url's so that it's easier to scan my notes.
> > 
> > * I'd like to create a link by typing something like [text to 
> > display](url). e.g. [google](http://www.google.com)
> >   * this would ideally just display as "google", without the quotes, but 
> > highlighted in blue.
> >   * when I place the cursor on "google", it expands to show 
> > [google](http://www.google.com), so that I could edit it, etc.
> >   * bonus for typing "gf" and having it open the link in a browser.
> > 
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> > 
> 
> You could use the "conceal" feature to hide parts of the text. Then by 
> default when you move the cursor onto the line, the hidden text would be 
> shown. Or you could set it up so that only happens in visual mode, or insert 
> mode.
> 
> If that idea interests you, you can define a syntax match of the stuff you 
> want to hide, and include the "conceal" attribute, and optionally the "cchar" 
> attribute as well to specify a character to show in place of the hidden text.

Sweet!  Thanks, Ben.  I will work on implementing this.

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