Example: Improving text in links to GitHub repos

[claremacrae]

Lots of my notes contain links to GitHub repos, and I use the Auto Link Title plugin to fetch the repo's title.

So for example, pasting in https://github.com/jglev/obsidian-apply-patterns-plugin results in:

... which displays as:

I find that quite hard to read, and I would like the repo name to stand out better.

I used to manually format these to display like this instead:

Then Apply Patterns came along, and now I use that to apply the format I want:

[
  {
    "name": "Format GithHub Repo Link",
    "rules": [
      {
        "from": "\\[(GitHub - ){0,1}([A-Za-z-\\d)]+)\\/([A-Za-z\\d\\-_.]+)(: [^\\]]+){0,1}\\]\\(https:\\/\\/github.com\\/([A-Za-z-\\d)]+)\\/([A-Za-z\\d\\-_.]+)\\/?\\)",
        "to": "[$2/**$3**](https://github.com/$2/$3)$4",
        "caseInsensitive": false,
        "global": true,
        "multiline": false,
        "sticky": false,
        "disabled": false
      }
    ],
    "collapsed": false,
    "cursorRegexStart": "^",
    "cursorRegexEnd": "$",
    "done": false
  }
]

[claremacrae]

To develop this, I set up a test markdown file with a load of links with problem cases in for this:

- [GitHub - Dmitriy-Shulha/obsidian-css-snippets: Most common appearance solutions for Obsidian now in a single place. Initially collected by Klaas: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-achieve-css-code-snippets/8474](https://github.com/Dmitriy-Shulha/obsidian-css-snippets)  
- [GitHub - UserName/sample-repo-name: Sample:,_()- Description](https://github.com/UserName/sample-repo-name)  
- [GitHub - arnemertz/commandline-videostore-cpp: C++ port of https://github.com/rickjanda/commandline-videostore](https://github.com/arnemertz/commandline-videostore-cpp)  
- [GitHub - chubin/cheat.sh: the only cheat sheet you need](https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh)  
- [GitHub - copperspice/doxypress](https://github.com/copperspice/doxypress)  
- [GitHub - maskiran/lightroom_collection_tree: Mirror the collection/collection sets in Lightroom onto the file system](https://github.com/maskiran/lightroom_collection_tree)  
- [UserName/sample-repo-name: Sample:,_()- Description](https://github.com/UserName/sample-repo-name)  
- [pimoroni/flotilla-rockpool: The Flotilla web dashboard](https://github.com/pimoroni/flotilla-rockpool/)
- [GitHub - approvals/ApprovalTests.Python: ApprovalTests for python](https://github.com/approvals/ApprovalTests.Python)

Which looks like this in Reading mode:

When I apply the above pattern to the whole file, the result is this:

- [Dmitriy-Shulha/**obsidian-css-snippets**](https://github.com/Dmitriy-Shulha/obsidian-css-snippets): Most common appearance solutions for Obsidian now in a single place. Initially collected by Klaas: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-achieve-css-code-snippets/8474  
- [UserName/**sample-repo-name**](https://github.com/UserName/sample-repo-name): Sample:,_()- Description  
- [arnemertz/**commandline-videostore-cpp**](https://github.com/arnemertz/commandline-videostore-cpp): C++ port of https://github.com/rickjanda/commandline-videostore  
- [chubin/**cheat.sh**](https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh): the only cheat sheet you need  
- [copperspice/**doxypress**](https://github.com/copperspice/doxypress)  
- [maskiran/**lightroom_collection_tree**](https://github.com/maskiran/lightroom_collection_tree): Mirror the collection/collection sets in Lightroom onto the file system  
- [UserName/**sample-repo-name**](https://github.com/UserName/sample-repo-name): Sample:,_()- Description  
- [pimoroni/**flotilla-rockpool**](https://github.com/pimoroni/flotilla-rockpool): The Flotilla web dashboard
- [approvals/**ApprovalTests.Python**](https://github.com/approvals/ApprovalTests.Python): ApprovalTests for python

(Aside: see #29 for how the test file made bug-reporting easier)