Questions tagged [magic-links]
For questions about "magic links", bracketed text in comments and chat that is automatically converted to relevant links.
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Is there a quick way to link to the help center?
I learned from a meta post by HeyICanChan once that you can type [tour] in a comment and SE will convert that into a link to the tour page.
Is there a similar way to link to the help center?
It's ...
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How long has [tour] automatically linked to the tour page?
I was linking to the tour page as I usually do in Markdown (square brackets followed by parentheses) when I noticed that typing "[tour]" was linking to the tour page by itself and the link in ...
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Could we get a [forum] shortlink?
We get a lot of questions that are better suited to a forum, and it's customary when closing them to provide a link to that post. Since I've started doing moderation, though, I've noticed that we don'...
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Could we have a shortcut "magic link" to the "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" blog post?
Mainly, just like we map [help] and [tour], I'd love to be able to map [gsbs] to the Stack Overflow blog post "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-...
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Could we have a [tour] short link in comments?
In comments,
[help] expands to the text help center (with a link),
[chat] expands to the text Role-playing Games Chat (with a ...
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