# Idea: Paste links in the editor

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-paste-links-in-the-editor/47125>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [July 11, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-paste-links-in-the-editor/47125 "2016-07-11T20:57:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-paste-links-in-the-editor/47125/1 "2016-07-11T20:57:38Z")

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Hey guys. If any of you uses WordPress, will know what I’m talking about. For others… I’ll explain.

So, in the WordPress editor, if you select a text and you press CTRL+V, it will do one of the following:

- if the clipboard content is a valid url, it will insert the link with the selected text as anchor;
- if the clipboard content is not a valid url, it will just overwrite the selected text.

I think it would be nice to just skip few steps (CTRL+K + CTRL+V + enter).

Any chance that this would be implemented on Discourse? 🙂

(also, what’s up with the undo? it’s simply broken if you use any toolbar/shortcut)

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