jsdoc - short/friendly @link plugin

Added support for short `{@link #member}` markup. This makes interlinking
much cleaner and shorter; similar short-link support was available in
previous versions of jsdoc.

tasks/jsdoc-conf.json

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
         "./tasks/jsdoc-plugins/filterpixi",
         "./tasks/jsdoc-plugins/proptomember",
         "./tasks/jsdoc-plugins/sourceproxy",
+        "./tasks/jsdoc-plugins/shortlinks",
         "plugins/markdown"
     ],
     "templates": {

tasks/jsdoc-plugins/shortlinks.js

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/**
+* Transform '{@link #x}' to '{@link longname#x x}' which saves lots of cumersome typing.
+*
+* This looks in @description, @classdesc and @see tags only.
+*
+* See https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/issues/483
+*/
+ 
+var path = require('path');
+ 
+function expandLinks (text, parent) {
+ 
+    return text.replace(/\{\s*@link\s+([#.])([\w$.]+)\s*\}/g, function (m, mod, name) {
+        var expanded = "{@link " + parent + mod + name + " " + name + "}";
+        return expanded;
+    });
+ 
+}
+ 
+exports.handlers = {};
+exports.handlers.newDoclet = function (e) {
+ 
+    var doclet = e.doclet;
+    var parent;
+    if (doclet.kind === 'class' || doclet.kind === 'interface')
+    {
+        parent = doclet.longname;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        // member, method, property, etc.
+        parent = doclet.memberof;
+    }
+ 
+    ['description', 'classdesc'].forEach(function (p) {
+        if (doclet[p])
+        {
+            doclet[p] = expandLinks(doclet[p], parent);
+        }
+    });
+
+    if (doclet.see && doclet.see.length)
+    {
+        for (var i = 0; i < doclet.see.length; i++)
+        {
+            doclet.see[i] = expandLinks(doclet.see[i], parent);
+        }
+    }
+ 
+};