Linkify quote replies #4024

So do you want existing conversations to be linkified somehow or that a link should be added before leaving a comment?

A link should be hard-catenated to the quote.

Unless this is against some existing standard...

So you mean you want your own comments to include a link for everyone else to see?

Yes. Maybe useless if it does not become standard GitHub behavior.

You might like: https://github.com/jerone/UserScripts/tree/master/Github_Reply_Comments

Example result: https://github.com/jerone/UserScripts/issues/1#issuecomment-459992579

I'd find it useful as well, but adding this feature would mean at least one of these:

A. Hacking the native R shortcut and "Quote Reply" features to add a link B. Recreating the whole "quote text" feature C. Adding a button

They're likely impossible, heavy (due to a DOM-to-Markdown converter), inexact (i.e. different from the native converter), error-prone (we had the converter before, it required several fixes) and visually noisy.

I think the script above will have to do. It does what it does by using B and C.

Other than that, you could just right-click the comment’s time, copy its URL and paste it after quoting it.

Yep. That makes sense.