In every editor I know of, if you jselect some text and paste from a clipboard, that text is overwritten by what’s in the clipboard. What you are suggesting would do away with the existing function of replace text with what’s in the clipboard.
- Not selecting any text and pasting from clipboard is a simple
PASTEaction. - Selecting text and pasting from a clipboard is a
REPLACE TEXTaction with what is in the clipboard.
Inserting hyperlink - using the already supplied button - is the easiest way to insert a link in whatever text you select by selecting the text first.
Inserting a hyperlink without text is clicking on the button, paste the link, click okay or hit enter or by just typing or pasting a link to a blank space.
I don’t see why you would want to take the universal Select & Replace Text function and convert that into what the existing button already does without losing that function common to all text editors. What would happen if you wanted to replace text with other text if you lose the Select & Replace function?
In Wordpress, what determines whether the text is replaced with what’s in the clipboard or inserts a hyperlink without overwriting the existing text using a simple select & paste as you suggest? Surely a simple highlighting of text and clicking paste cannot perform both functions or do one function without losing the other.
Or am I missing something?
As is already in Discourse, typing in or pasting a URL does turn it into a clickable link without having to use the Insert Link feature. Then you have the Onebox feature. And you have the Insert Link button already.
Paste inserts text.
Select and paste replaces the text.
Select and delete/back space deletes the text.
These are common functions of all text editors.