An undisputed killer-feature of the old markdown composer was this workflow: Write a Text Go fetch an URL somewhere else, copy it to the clipboard go back to your markdown composer, select/highlight a word or some text press strg + v (insert from clipboard) result: the text stays the same, but the…

Please bring back in new composer: insert link from clipboard on selected text

Ralf_Stockmann (Ralf Stockmann) July 16, 2025, 3:18pm 3

Just a test with an url from discourse

Interesting. Obviously, this IS working with an URL from this meta. I’ll investigate further what went wrong on our instance.

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