HTML anchor tags should be made from markdown headers

feature
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It would be good if HTML anchor tags were automatically created for markdown headers. This is a feature of github markdown.

REPO always
STEPS

  1. Go to http://gohugo.io/overview/quickstart
  2. Click “upgrade”

ACTUAL RESULT
At the top of http://gohugo.io/overview/installing

EXPECTED RESULT
At the “upgrade” section of the page.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
"if the Header has multiple words, like “My Header”, you can use [Link to my Header](#my-header). This works at least in GitHub flavor." from stackoverflow.com/questions/6695439/how-do-you-create-link-to-a-named-anchor-in-multimarkdown

2

I think that you should follow this issue:

3

I have put a pair of PRs in on blackfriday that will make this work properly with a small change to hugo.

4

The PR was accepted into blackfriday. I have implemented a naïve version for Hugo:

There are caveats to this; even though it’s a one-line change and a generally good idea, I’m not sure that I would want to merge it as is. Please read the PR for details.