Make auto-linking with @ from multi-word name fragments easier

[agentydragon]

Hi, I'm coming from Roam Research, Athens and Logseq.
Those tools use [[ to delimit page links, so if you write "[[John Doe", you'll get an autocomplete listing all your pages with John Doe, and then you can press Enter to complete the link (with ]]).

Trilium does autolinking great when you want to autolink on a single word - if you only have one page with, say, "Sausage" in the name (e.g., "Sausage soup"), you can just type @Sausage <Enter> and you'll get the link.

But imagine that only a single word does not uniquely identify your page - for example, I have a page named My tasks and a page named My metrics. Then if I want to link to My metrics, I have two options:

• Type @My, select "My metrics" from the list, Enter.
• Use Ctrl+L, type My metrics, Enter.

If you type @My␣, the space closes the @ menu. So typing @My␣metrics<Enter> just leaves you with the text @My metrics and a newline.

If you insert a link with Ctrl+L, it opens a big modal dialog, and you need to press an extra key: Ctrl+L My␣metrics <Enter> (dismiss page list) <Enter> (close link dialog) works.

I think it would be useful to make the @ suggestion menu a bit smarter about how it behaves. For example, I think it would be nice to allow using it to create a page whose name has spaces in it.

One idea I have is that the @ menu would remain open if you press Space, but it would get dismissed if you press Escape, or if it somehow otherwise decided "you probably don't want to create a page" - for example if it I continue by typing something that looks like a domain name after it (as in xyzzy@foo.com).

[zadam]

Hi, I agree, but this is unfortunately not possible with CKEditor Mention feature: ckeditor/ckeditor5#9741

[meichthys]

Trilium has entered maintenance mode. Future enhancements will be addressed in TrilumNext: TriliumNext#133