Hello All, We are setting up our new discourse internal environment and I was able to setup a custom URL scheme to link to an internal resource on the network, I wanted to add an easy button when making a new post which I was able to do but I want to be able to use the highlighted text for the link…

So you want the text you select to appear twice? I don’t think that function will allow you to do that? Have you thought about overriding the onebox logic to work with your protocol?

The protocol works fine, I can use inet:// as needed but I was just looking for an easy way for user to insert the custom URL into a post. In the previous form (phpbb) we made a custom bbcode for the link that worked however I was looking for an easier solution with discourse.

It does not out of the box. So what you’re referring to is to create a onebox plugin for inet:// which will format the link the way I need? So when user enter inet://12345 onebox preview will actually contain the proper formatted link?

My suggestion was that rather than doing something so low level in the composer, “simply” modify the oneboxing subsystem so it formats inet:// links just like https:// links. Specifically I’m referring to the way it formats inline like so: Dark/Light Mode Toggle - #20 by jordan.vidrine All I had t…

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merefield (Robert) February 14, 2023, 6:33pm 4

so Discourse already supports oneboxing of inet:// links?

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