# Discourse feature request: Autolink names of registered packages

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [March 8, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731 "2020-03-08T19:40:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731/1 "2020-03-08T19:40:16Z")

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On github you can write #1234 and it will automatically turn into a link to the respective issue/PR.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a similar feature here for registered packages?

So if you write, say, BenchmarkTools.jl it would automatically turn into [BenchmarkTools.jl](https://github.com/JuliaCI/BenchmarkTools.jl).

The relevant URL could perhaps be looked up in the General registry. But of course I have no idea whether this is possible with discourse via a bot or so.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Tero\_Frondelius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tero_frondelius/32/7629_2.png) [@Tero\_Frondelius](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tero_Frondelius)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731/2 "2020-03-10T05:42:41Z")

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I like the idea. If there are two or more packages with the same name, which of those the plugin/bot should pick? (I believe this is possible eventhough it’s not very common.)

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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731/3 "2020-03-17T08:15:02Z")

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If there is two it should not link.  
But maybe `User/PackageName.jl` could?