Detect links in description texts and enrich them with html

matorral/stories/templates/stories/epic_detail.html

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {% extends 'base.html' %}
+{% load stories_tags %}
 
 {% block page_title %}[Epic] {{ object.title }} :: {{ current_workspace }}{% endblock %}
 
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@
 			</div>
 
 			<div class="content">
-				{{ epic.description|default:''|linebreaksbr }}<br/><br/>
+				{{ epic.description|default:''|to_html }}<br/><br/>
 				<div class="field is-grouped is-grouped-multiline">
 					<div class="control">
 						<div class="tags has-addons">

matorral/stories/templates/stories/story_detail.html

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {% extends 'base.html' %}
+{% load stories_tags %}
 
 {% block page_title %}[Story] {{ object.title }} :: {{ current_workspace }}{% endblock %}
 
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
 			</div>
 
 			<div class="content">
-				{{ story.description|default:''|linebreaksbr }}<br/><br/>
+				{{ story.description|default:''|to_html }}<br/><br/>
 				<div class="field is-grouped is-grouped-multiline">
 					<div class="control">
 						<div class="tags has-addons">

matorral/stories/templatetags/stories_tags.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from django import template
+from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe as safe
+
+
+register = template.Library()
+
+
+@register.filter
+def to_html(text):
+    def replace_links_with_html(text):
+        import re
+
+        url_re = re.compile(r"(https?://\S+)")
+        return url_re.sub(r'<a target="_blank" href="\1">\1</a>', text)
+
+    html = replace_links_with_html(text)
+    html = html.replace("\n", "<br>")
+    return safe(html)