From a074a489f646f7962c790326572a26fe6f419e18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:59:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Linkify mxc:// URLs as links to your media repo

---
 src/linkify-matrix.ts | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/linkify-matrix.ts b/src/linkify-matrix.ts
index 400a3ba1531..5534d785fba 100644
--- a/src/linkify-matrix.ts
+++ b/src/linkify-matrix.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import * as linkifyjs from "linkifyjs";
 import { EventListeners, Opts, registerCustomProtocol, registerPlugin } from "linkifyjs";
 import linkifyElement from "linkify-element";
 import linkifyString from "linkify-string";
-import { User } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/matrix";
+import { getHttpUriForMxc, User } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/matrix";
 
 import {
     parsePermalink,
@@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ export const options: Opts = {
 
     formatHref: function (href: string, type: Type | string): string {
         switch (type) {
+            case "url":
+                if (href.startsWith("mxc://") && MatrixClientPeg.get()) {
+                    return getHttpUriForMxc(MatrixClientPeg.get()!.baseUrl, href);
+                }
+            // fallthrough
             case Type.RoomAlias:
             case Type.UserId:
             default: {
@@ -244,6 +249,8 @@ registerPlugin(Type.UserId, ({ scanner, parser }) => {
 
 registerCustomProtocol("matrix", true);
 
+registerCustomProtocol("mxc", false);
+
 export const linkify = linkifyjs;
 export const _linkifyElement = linkifyElement;
 export const _linkifyString = linkifyString;