Relative Markdown links not rendered in preview

[stiang]

It looks like the Markdown preview does not render relative links. This...

- [Relative](relative/path/to/markdown-file.md) - A relative link
- [Absolute](https://google.com/) - An absolute link

... turns into ...

I think I kind of understand the reason for this—a link to another file inside a repo/project would not necessarily be accessible by the user’s browser, and it might be unclear exactly what the user expects when clicking it.

Still, I was kind of hoping that a relative link to another Markdown file inside the same repo/project would just open inside the Zed preview, so that I could follow internal links inside my docs folder. Is this something I should just forget about or is there any chance it might be supported in the future?

I am on the latest version as of this writing, 0.202.7, on macOS Sequoia 15.5.

[drdozer]

Just hit this. Relative links should be fully navigable in preview mode, and in editing mode it should give you the option to create the file if it does not exist.

[JosephTLyons]

Thanks for reaching out. We want to better support our community, and the best way for us to do that is through our official Discord. The team is active there and happy to help.

We’re closing the “Help and General Q&A” category on GitHub Discussions and directing all support questions to Discord going forward.

https://zed.dev/community-links