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pasting URL always generates full link syntax

See original GitHub issue

Issue

Suppose the user has written the following text:

Elephants are the largest existing land animal (see [Wikipedia article](

Then, pasting the URI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant, and then typing ))., should result in text as follows:

Elephants are the largest existing land animal (see [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant)).

In fact the result is the following:

Elephants are the largest existing land animal (see [Wikipedia article]([Elephant - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant))).

Environment

OS/Desktop: Mint 19.3, Cinnamon 4.4.8
Application version: 16.2

Notes

Strangely, both display the same in the editing buffer, which may be a separate bug.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:29 (15 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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brainchild0commented, Jun 29, 2020

I have no problem with both behaviors supported through different commands, but this behavior occurring with the paste command is confusing. A user who copies a URL from a browser window believes that the text in the clipboard is that URL, which would be pasted verbatim.

If the simple paste is already supported, perhaps the best solution is simply reversing how the application resolves which action. If regular pasting simply inserted the URL, then ctrl-shift-V might create the formatted link.

In either case, the documented effect is certainly a bug. Inserting a formatted link while the incomplete syntactical construction is in the buffer left of the caret will always create incorrect Markdown, and is always not the intention of the user. It might be appropriate to introduce a special case.

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guillemglezcommented, Aug 21, 2020

I understand you suggest that Ctrl + V should behave as Ctrl + Shift + V does at the moment? It does make sense. Actually in my case I did not know about the Shift option until I found this issue; was very frustrated on the default behaviour.

In my opinion it would be neater to have an “Automatically format pasted URL to link syntax” option. Changing current behaviour may produce the same frustration to users who are already used at the current functionality.