Feature Request: Right Click Wiki Link to Open it In Hovering Window

Bear feedback Feature Request
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As a user, I want to:

  • stay focused on the document and tag that I am working on; but be able to view a linked document in a separate window.
    • Accomplish that as follows:
      • Right click a wiki link in the document that I am working on and see a set of options
      • select an option to open the in a new window
      • have that window hover over the current
      • if the page that the wiki link leads to is under a different tag than the document I am working on, I do not want the active tag in my editor to change.
    • Thus: I will be able to stay focused on my current page and tags; while bringing in text from wiki links that are on the page.
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Yes! As someone who uses Wikilinks a lot, this would be a godsend. Particularly when it comes to links inside of tables.

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There isn’t an option on the right-click menu, but if you hold Command and click on the wiki link it will be opened in a new window.

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Thanks!

Perfect :polar_bear:

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.. But then you’d have to close the window manually :smiley:

When browsing pages dense with Wikilinks, I find having to (hover + hold a button + click on the word + click again on “x” or press CMD+W to close the window) to be a bit clunky, particularly if compared to a popover preview of the page that appears just when hovering onto the word (Notion, Craft, .. Do this). 4 actions vs 1 for a quick consultation.

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In my eyes it is quick enough.

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I’ve actually not been a fan of those popups at times in Craft because I’ll move my mouse around and stop for a slight second, and a preview pops up I never wanted. And sometimes it blocks another area I was trying to click or see, and I wind up quickly moving my mouse away to get it to go away. So this adds extra steps in my workflow at times.

If this became an option, I would prefer it be a toggle on/off addition. I’ll be one who turns them off.

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I now have an update to this feature request:

Thanks to @trix180 for showing that my original request is implemented.

I think it would be great to extend the feature: so, if you could also command + click in order to open a searched doc in a pop-up window.

Use case:

  1. I have a MOC (map of content) note, that I need to open and add a link or text to. I don’t want to change any of my context to do so.

  2. I type “[[start-of-document-name … “

  3. the pop-up drop down appears, showing the document I want to open, in the list.

My current work-around:

  1. I complete the link in the current document [[document-full-name]] [this step would be removed]
  2. I command + click on the document, and it pops up.
  3. I add the needed text, link, etc.
  4. Then close the document
  5. Then erase the link from the current page [this step would be removed]

Improvement:

  1. Just be able to command + click the search result directly; so the document pops up.
  2. And when I close the document, I don’t have to erase the work-around link.
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command + double-click does what you want