# 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: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-paste-links-in-the-editor/47125/20 "2021-11-29T05:57:53Z")

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This is now merged!

- Cut a URL
- Select a word in Discourse composer
- Paste URL
- Word becomes a link… Magic :woman_mage::mage:

Big thank you [gwwar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-paste-links-in-the-editor/47125/16) ← That was easily created using the paste trick @gwwar!

I find this quite cool, very hard to learn about it existing, but now that I know it exists I will certainly use the trick on occasion

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