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Bug 548078 - link to an existing note
link to an existing note
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
0.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
gnome[moved-to-github]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-16 23:47 UTC by David Prieto
Modified: 2017-07-31 12:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description David Prieto 2008-08-16 23:47:28 UTC
Originally sent to launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/182365

Let's suppose I'm taking notes on Shakespeare and I create a note called "iambic pentameter" with a definition of it. I like that everytime I type "iambic pentameter" in any note I get a link to the definition, but I would like to get it too if I type "iambic pentameters".

I propose including the option to select a stretch of text and link it to a specific note; for example the first time I type "iambic pentameters" I don't get a link, but if I select it and link it to the "iambic pentameter" note, every time I type that text it will become a link to that note.
Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2008-08-17 03:28:58 UTC
I can't believe there isn't already a bug for this (I just checked).  It is a common request to be able to link to notes (and other objects) in a more explicit way as you suggest.  There has been some discussion of it on the mailing list, as well.
Comment 2 Dimitri Vorona 2008-11-11 20:45:28 UTC
Thirded...I couldn't belive I'm not able to do so. Don't think it's really big complicated to code, but it would be a huge improvement.
Comment 3 Jared Jennings 2012-03-08 04:25:26 UTC
How would this mapping be stored? Would it be stored in the note containing the links?

Something like
<link key name=iambic pentameters>
<link key value>Linked To Note1</link key value>
<link key value>Linked To Note1</link key value>
</link key>
Comment 4 André Klapper 2017-07-31 12:46:01 UTC
The Tomboy team has moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub for bug reports and feature requests: 
      https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/
Closing this report as NOTGNOME as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 781054) to keep tasks in one place. Please feel free to transfer this task to GitHub if this task is still valid in a recent Tomboy version. 
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