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

Support
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An undisputed killer-feature of the old markdown composer was this workflow:

  1. Write a Text
  2. Go fetch an URL somewhere else, copy it to the clipboard
  3. go back to your markdown composer, select/highlight a word or some text
  4. press strg + v (insert from clipboard)
  5. result: the text stays the same, but the url was added to it

This felt like pure magic, I’ve never seen this feature anywhere else.
And now it’s GONE :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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I’m sorry you feel this way, but this is supposed to work. I’ve moved it to Bug.

I can’t reproduce your issue, though – this works fine for me.

The important part is: where are you copying the URL from? There are specific rules to make this work for plain text and for <a> links inside a html clipboard, so knowing exactly how/where you’re copying from will help us reproduce it and allow us to fix it.

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.

4

Thanks Ralf, moving this to support for now, let me know if you can figure out a repro!