Issue autolink reference with title displayed

[donquixote]

Currently, the syntax #123 creates an issue link.
Hovering reveals the issue title. But the title is not displayed in the text.

I propose a new syntax, e.g. #123+ that will also display the issue title.

See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31451587/is-there-a-way-to-reference-an-issue-including-title-on-github where someone asks for this.

[award28]

Can we get a conversation started around this?

[ni4]

...or, at least, it would be useful to have a simpler then copy-paste way to insert issue/PR title into the text (so no need to track it and auto-update on issue's title change).

[ViRuSTriNiTy]

Other tools have this implemented and it`s a blessing. GitHub should have this too.

[leyu-wfh]

At least, can we have the title inserted during edit time?
So it won't auto update after commenting, but at least it saved some copy-pasting effort.
If title can show upon hovering, probably it can be extended to insert the tooltip at cursor location.

[bradydan]

Gets my vote too. Would be very useful when there's list ofseveral issues, i.e. no need to hover over each one to see the title

Is it that one? No
Is it that one? No
Is it that one? … etc

[ccc-dvansevenant]

Welcome to 2021, looks like this request is still outstanding. We're tossing a coin between JIRA and GitHub Issues. So far, GitHub Issues is losing.

[mprinc]

Would <3 to have this, even if it doesn't auto-update on the title change

[KyrietS]

You mean a reference like this?

• Issue autolink reference with title displayed #1020

I think this feature is already implemented for lists (or I haven't discovered how it works in normal paragraphs yet).

The following Markdown:

Look at this: #1020
* Now look at this: #1020

Produces this output:

Look at this: #1020

• Now look at this: Issue autolink reference with title displayed #1020

[mprinc]

BINGO! That sounds cool but as you said, inconsistent :)

[Levi-Lesches]

I've seen it done in a paragraph before, but I also don't know how to trigger it.

[donquixote]

Interesting observation: This only seems to work when logged in!

[mhsmith]

This is a recent change which is documented here:

If you reference an issue, pull request, or discussion in a list, the reference will unfurl to show the title and state instead.

I don't think this has been properly thought through, because now we need a way to STOP unfurling the issue ID inside a list where the result would be less readable.

• For example, if the Markdown text #1973, #2000, and #2005 happens to be inside a list, it now renders as Contribution graph - explanation currently does not match light/dark theme specific graph changes #1973, Split Repositories tab in organizations to Active Repositories (non-archived repositories) and Abandoned Repositories (archived ones) #2000, and Contribution graph wants to show contributions from the future for visitors who is not logged in #2005

This takes up about 10 times as much space, and completely destroys the flow of any sentence which the issue numbers might have been embedded in.

Please vote for community/community#4321 if you agree that this is a problem.