Autolink plugin typing support

[jacekbogdanski]

Are you reporting a feature request or a bug?

Feature request

Autolink plugin currently only works for pasted content. We could expand the plugin to handle turning URLs and emails into links when typing text into editor.

Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Open CKEditor sample with enabled autolink plugin.
2. Type http://example.com

Expected result

URL has been replaced with HTML link e.g. <a href=“http://example.com”>http://example.com</a>.

Actual result

URL has been typed as a normal text.

[ghost]

are you guys planning to do this feature?

[mlewand]

@hkakumanu-ttc it's not yet in our backlog - however the best way to show that you'd like to see it in the release is to add 👍 reaction in the first post.

[Comandeer]

Autolinking was merged to major and will appear in CKEditor 4.11.0.

[mlewand]

The feature landed on a major branch, however autolink plugin is not by default included in any of our presets, thus it's not included in any sample.

I created a codepen demo where it could be previewed: https://codepen.io/mlewand/pen/QBGYpL

[mlewand]

BTW guys, I'm wondering if there should be added a simplified regexp for string like www.example.example, because for URLs currently one must write a fully qualified URL including a protocol, which is a rather rare case. @jacekbogdanski @Comandeer

Also I have found an bug described in #2244.