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Keep selected text when inserting a URL #2029
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Hello, it seemed to me that in previous version, copying an URL on selected text created a proper formatted link. It’s not the case actually.
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fxha commentedon Jun 7, 2020
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue. We cannot reproduce this issue without steps to reproduce, please provide some steps or how the error occurred.
Li-An commentedon Jun 7, 2020
Well, it’s quite simple. You copy an URL, You select some text in Marktext. You paste the URL to create a linked text.
fxha commentedon Jun 7, 2020
Which version are you using? I tried the following:
foo [Copy URL on selected text to get a link · Issue #2029 · marktext/marktext · GitHub](https://github.com/marktext/marktext/issues/2029) fooIf you just want a raw URL, please use
Ctrl+Vgo getfoo https://github.com/marktext/marktext/issues/2029 foo.Li-An commentedon Jun 7, 2020
If I have foo bar foo and URL is https://home.com. I select bar and when I paste (sorry, I just noticed that my english is so bad that I should have written paste and not copy) the URL, I hope to get
foo [bar](https://home.com) fooI hope it’s clearer now.
[-]Copy URL on selected text to get a link[/-][+]Keep selected text when inserting a URL[/+]maxibor commentedon Jun 17, 2020
Would be a nice feature to have 😃
brainchild0 commentedon Jun 21, 2020
I feel it might be confusing if regular pasting created a link, but it would be convenient if some different menu item and keyboard shortcut produced this effect.
cpsauer commentedon Nov 26, 2020
I too think that this feature would be very nice to have!
It's becoming common enough across other types of editors I use that this is what I would have guessed would happen on paste.
ks00x commentedon Feb 18, 2022
I miss this feature too! If the clipboard contains a valid url and text is selected in the editor then create a markdown link with the selected text as the link text.
LuxBrg commentedon Apr 21, 2026
Hi, is the feature already on the roadmap? I come from another editor and want to use MarkText. This feature is really missing.
Li-An commentedon Apr 21, 2026
I think the development is dead. I use Typora.
fix: #2029 preserve selected text when pasting a URL
fix: #2029 preserve selected text when pasting a URL
fix: marktext#2029 preserve selected text when pasting a URL (marktex…