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Use Vim's regex engine to change direct GitHub links into GitHub wiki links
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| %S#\[(.*?)\]\(https://github.com/byuoitav/team/wiki/(.*?)\)#\[\[\1|\2\]\]#g |
For this to work, you need to install the eregex Vim plugin so that Vim respects Perl regex syntax (why would you ever not use Perl syntax...?).
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This takes a link like this:
[GitHub repository](https://github.com/byuoitav/team/wiki/Team-Repository-Guidelines)And turns it into:
[[GitHub repository|Team-Repository-Guidelines]]This link style is only useful for inter-wiki-page linking but enables automatic dead link checking (links display red on the wiki pages when they are broken).