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kristianwindandClaude Opus 4.8 9d4a13c2c2 feat(tasks): make a URL in a task's title or description clickable
A task is plain text — the title is an input, the description a textarea —
so a pasted URL just sat there as words. It is now caught at display time
and shown as a link in the list and on the board, without the stored text
ever being anything but plain text.

The link cannot live inside the row's open-button (an <a> in a <button> is
invalid), so the body is a container with the open action as an overlay
behind it: plain text and the meta row still open the task, links are
raised above and take their own click. Conservative about what counts —
an explicit http(s):// or a bare www. host, not every dotted word.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 16:17:56 +02:00

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/**
* Splits a plain string into runs of text and the URLs inside it, so a task's
* title or description can be shown with the links clickable without the text
* ever having been anything but plain text on disk.
*
* A task is not rich text — the title is an `<input>` and the description a
* `<textarea>` — so there is nowhere to *store* a link. What there is instead is
* a person who pasted one in and expects to be able to click it. This finds the
* ones that are unambiguously links and leaves everything else exactly as typed.
*
* Deliberately conservative about what counts as a link: an explicit
* `http://`/`https://`, or a bare `www.` host. "example.com" on its own is not
* matched — most of those are sentences ("the file.txt is here"), and a false
* link in a title is worse than a real one left plain.
*/
// A trailing `.,;:!?` or a closing bracket is almost always punctuation the
// sentence owns rather than part of the URL, so the run stops before it. A `)`
// is only dropped when the URL holds no `(` of its own — Wikipedia-style links
// carry balanced parentheses that belong to the address.
const URL_RE = /\b(?:https?:\/\/|www\.)[^\s<>]+/gi;
function trimTrailing(url) {
let end = url.length;
while (end > 0) {
const ch = url[end - 1];
if ('.,;:!?"\''.includes(ch)) {
end--;
continue;
}
if (ch === ')' && !url.slice(0, end).includes('(')) {
end--;
continue;
}
break;
}
return url.slice(0, end);
}
/**
* @param {string} text
* @returns {Array<{ text: string, href?: string }>} runs in order; a run with an
* `href` is a link, one without is plain text. An empty or link-free string
* comes back as a single text run (possibly empty) so callers can render it the
* same way regardless.
*/
export function linkify(text) {
const value = text ?? '';
const runs = [];
let last = 0;
for (const match of value.matchAll(URL_RE)) {
const raw = trimTrailing(match[0]);
if (!raw) continue;
const start = match.index;
if (start > last) runs.push({ text: value.slice(last, start) });
const href = raw.startsWith('www.') ? `https://${raw}` : raw;
runs.push({ text: raw, href });
last = start + raw.length;
}
if (last < value.length) runs.push({ text: value.slice(last) });
if (!runs.length) runs.push({ text: value });
return runs;
}