1. Links
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## 1. Links

eJourn is capable of storing in text links. These are a lot like hyper-links on a webpage. They're accessible via a context menu in the main text of the edit tab. To do it, highlight some text and right click:

Figure 7.2. Creating a Link

Now, go ahead and click that "Create New Link" menu item. And you'll be presented with this:

Figure 7.3. The Link Create Window

Please notice that I've selected the "Link to Search" arrow. You can select any of the three and they should be self explanatory. But, we'll just go ahead and enter a search "this" and click ok.

You'll notice that the window closes and you'll see has in blue and underlined in your text. This should always be there unless you remove it.

### 1.1. Removing A Link

To remove the link we've just created go ahead and right click on the link. A context menu will appear with one item (maybe more in the future), click "Remove Link."

The link will dissappear. If you don't want to remake it, but want it back just click: edit->undo. This will cause the link remove to be undone. This should undo any changes done in the edit box on the edit tab (and maybe in the future undo other changes.

You can also remove a link by highlighting all of it and hitting backspace.

### 1.2. Link Rules

Links have some rules which may seem a bit unnatural:

1.) You cannot type in a link. Go ahead and try, nothing will happen.

2.) Clicking links activates them.

3.) Hitting enter while the cursor is inside the link activates them.

4.) You can remove a link by either: Right clicking and selecting remove. Or, by highlighting the whole text and pushing backspace.

### 1.3. Caveats

There are things about links which aren't always working properly. The complexity of implementing and tracking links is unfortunately fairly high. So, you may notice things get buggered up sometimes and the undo can't save you.

For this reason I do recommend being careful with links. I'm working on bugs on them, but I honestly don't discover them very fast. So, please file a bug report when you find one in the links.

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