Suggest adding URL-encoded text variable to enable deep-linking features

[zbh531]

Hi! I really enjoy using this extension to copy text as Markdown to further make notes. One of the features I'd really like to have for this extension is deep-linking as in "Copy link to highlight" in the right-click menu in Chrome. Therefore, I suggest adding a URL-encoded text variable, where some special characters in selected text are encoded using URL encoding, aka percent-encoding. For example, spaces in a string are encoded with %20, and colons signs (:) encoded with %3A.

Example:

Default Markdown Format: [%text_md%](%url%)
Current result: In the United States, about 80% of household cats are neutered.
Source mode: [In the United States, about 80% of household cats are neutered\.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat)

Desired Markdown Format: [%text_md%](%url%#:~:text=%text_urlenc%)¹
Suggested result: In the United States, about 80% of household cats are neutered.²
Source mode: [In the United States, about 80% of household cats are neutered\.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20about%2080%25%20of%20household%20cats%20are%20neutered.) ³

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

Footnotes

1. The proposed %text_urlenc% variable denotes selected text that is URL-encoded. ↩

2. This URL would be directed to selected (highlighted) text. ↩

3. Spaces in selected text ( ) are encoded with %20, commas (,) with %2C, and percent signs (%) with %25. ↩

[zbh531]

I found that adding the deep-linking feature was not as simple as I thought that adding a URL-encoded text variable would work, where another two variables (textStart & textEnd) are also necessary. However, I did figure out a workaround.

Workaround Markdown Format: [%text_md%](%input%)
Step 1: Copy selected text using "Copy link to highlight" in the right-click menu in Chrome.
Step 2: "Creat Link as Workaround Markdown" using this extension.
Step 3: Paste the copied link in Step 1 to the popup dialog.

Thanks again for all your hard work. I really love this extension!