# Automatic package links

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatic-package-links/106275>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatic-package-links/106275 "2023-11-15T17:44:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatic-package-links/106275/4 "2023-11-20T15:56:01Z")

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Thanks everyone for your input! Looks like we have a solid majority in favor, let’s try it out. Here’s what I’ve implemented (note that you may need to refresh to get the links):

This is a Julia issue: julia#265  
These are Julia commits: julia@7327a8f, julia@72cd63ce28c50c8c72e009df03dfec608802450e  
This is a package issue: JuliaStats/Distributions.jl#123  
This is a registered package ~~info page on JuliaHub:~~ Distributions.jl  
This is a GitHub package link: JuliaStats/Distributions.jl

If you see anything awry or have other suggestions, please make your voice known!

@Mason, just FYI, I added `\b`s to the beginning of these regexes, which isn’t how it’s configured on Zulip. It may help reduce some false positives, like someone writing path/to/src/SubModule/SubModule.jl without ``s.

I wonder if and/or how we could display these rules. Unlike [Zulip](https://julialang.zulipchat.com/#organization/linkifier-settings), by default Discourse doesn’t display these to users (I don’t think). Anyhow, these are the rules as of right now (the component doesn’t support named groups):

```regex
/\b[jJ]ulia\#([0-9]+)/, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/$1
/\bjulia@([0-9a-f]{4,40})/, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/$1
/\b([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)#([0-9]+)/, https://github.com/$1/$2/issues/$3
/\b([A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(.jl)/, https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/$1
/\b([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+.jl)/, https://github.com/$1/$2

```

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