Links come back after closing Zim

[dotancohen]

If a user removes a link, after closing and reopening Zim the link reappears.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Enter text that makes a link in Zim, such as <email address hidden>
2) Right-click and remove link
3) Close Zim
4) Reopen Zim

The link is back!

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

This is intended behavior. Text that matches an URL or an email address will always show up as a link. Only formatting as verbatim can prevent this. Relates to the discussion about the escaping of wiki syntax - so please document in the development wiki.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

> This is intended behavior.
>

Then why is there an option to remove links?

I use Verbatim for code, but there are many other places where I have links appearing which are not code.

[HansBKK (hansbkk)]

I would personally like to see an option to disable all rendering, perhaps on a per-notebook basis, but ideally per-file or per-filesystem-branch. But probably not part of Jaap's intended use-cases for Zim.

I can see a fix for this specific issue in simply preventing the UI from pretending to the user that it's possible to edit that sort of link.

[ybukhman (yurybukhman)]

I agree with hansbkk: "preventing the UI from pretending to the user that it's possible to edit that sort of link."