Add link support to Markdown [label](http://link)

noshyuz

Add link labelling to Markdown label support

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Ben

Hi @noshyuz

If I recall correctly we discussed this when originally building markdown support in 1Password and decided against including support for it as it could be used to hide the true nature of a link, e.g.:

https://discussions.agilebits.com/

This link looks like it is going to take you to discussions.agilebits.com, but instead actually takes you to 1password.com. In your browser you likely have some sort of status bar or other indicator that can tell you where this link actually goes, but we don't have any such thing in 1Password currently. It is possible that in the future we could find a way to work around that, but for the initial implementation we wanted to avoid it. I'll bring the subject up with the team and see if there is any room to reconsider at this point.

Ben

noshyuz

An alternative could be to turn a long URL into something that shows a snippet of the link, like:
https://discussions....com/
and you could still show the whole link in the Edit view, for example.

My use case is that often I want to save a URL that turns out to be rather long, and it's awkward to navigate on a mobile device with limited screen space, if a link occupies several lines of the display.

So I want the link markdown primarily to make a shorter label:
markup discussion

I understand the risk of a fake link name, though presumably you trust the people you share a password archive with? :)

Ben

Thanks for taking the time to share your use case here, @noshyuz. Perhaps as we continue to iterate on markdown support this is something we can take another look at.

Ben