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>selection of text + pasting of a link as "turn this text into a link using the URL in the clipboard" Seems like an interesting UX debate. It's a handy shortcu
by breischl 5y ago
>selection of text + pasting of a link as "turn this text into a link using the URL in the clipboard"
Seems like an interesting UX debate. It's a handy shortcut, but it makes "paste" modal depending on what's in the clipboard. Pasting might replace the selected text, or might link it. And because the behavior depends on whether the clipboard text "looks like" a URL, there's an element of DWIM (Do What I Mean) in there. Does it only handle http:// http:// links? What about www.? Or mailto:? etc.
- Steltek 5y agoI haven't experienced the behavior described but reading it, I instantly hate it. It would differ from every other program I use. I'd counter with there should be two different paste actions in every program: plain and smart. I almost always don't want to preserve rich formatting when I paste text. It looks like my cat walked over the keyboard while I was typing. The action to paste as plain text versus a fancier/DWIMy method is often different from program to program.