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In my opinion, one tiddler shouldn't handle more than one types of links. This is because of these reasons:

Different types of links needs to be handled differently. For example, markdown internal links requires escaping characters like ()<>\ while wikitext internal links does not. IMO mixing them to let it handle two types of links can make the code become complicated.

I think a better solution is to abandon the $:/config/Editor/EnableImportFilter so that the file import UI can be used for any type when there is one available (since those without a handler didn't have side effects at present), like the editor toolbar icons.

For the code duplication problem,since the core logic is the same, I think we can create a template and require the handler to provide essential information (like the link template, characters to escape) to solve it.

I think a better solution is to abandon the $:/config/Editor/EnableImportFilter so that the file import UI can be used for any type when there is one available (since those without a handler didn't have side effects at present), like the editor toolbar icons.

This isn't a possibility due to backwards compatibility constraints and the fact that showing an affordance to import something and having nothing happen when you drop a file would be very misleading and would be construed as a bug. Also, it is a useful feature to be able to turn off the ability to import into the editor as well.

For the code duplication problem, since the core logic is the same, I think we can create a template and require the handler to provide essential information (like the link template, characters to escape) to solve it.

I have considered a similar solution where we lookup the template to use in a given tiddler type and if it does not exist, fall back to wikitext. This would allow plugins to provide the templates to use for different tiddler types. However, given that there is unlikely to be another plain text format that needs to be supported, this does feel like an unnecessary amount of complexity.

markdown internal links requires escaping characters like ()<>\ while wikitext internal links does not.

Escaping characters for markdown can be easily incorporated into this PR.

@Leilei332 I have updated the code to URI encode tiddler titles for markdown tiddlers, which the Markdown plugin documentation states is an alternative to escaping characters:

If a tiddler title contains spaces or other special characters, you must either (1) URI-encode the title, or (2) surround the #title with < > and backslash-escape any < or > in the title.

@Leilei332 I have updated the code to URI encode tiddler titles for markdown tiddlers, which the Markdown plugin documentation states is an alternative to escaping characters:

If a tiddler title contains spaces or other special characters, you must either (1) URI-encode the title, or (2) surround the #title with < > and backslash-escape any < or > in the title.

In my opinion, I preferred escaped characters to URI encoded characters, since they don't make non-ASCII characters unreadable (as is described in #8402).

Updated to use character escaping instead of URI encoding of tiddler titles used in image syntax in markdown tiddlers.

Hi @saqimtiaz is this ready to come out of draft as suggested by @Leilei332 over in #8525 (comment)?

@Jermolene this should be good to go. I prefer this implementation over the one in #8525 as explained here.

Thanks @saqimtiaz