Steps to reproduce
- Ensure Obsidian is in Live Preview mode.
- Browse to a note that has an external URL in it.
- Right-click somewhere on the link to show the context menu
- Click “Copy”
- Paste the clipboard contents somewhere
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Y
Expected result
URL of the link will be pasted.
Actual result
It varies, either pasting nothing (having not copied anything to the clipboard) or a string of text that is not the URL See details/examples in “Additional Information” below.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.4
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:16 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 24.3.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Additional information
Example from the sandbox vault follows below. Before attempting any Copy command, I have “cleared” the clipboard of previous text by filling it with non-text contents (usually a screenshot).
Take these two links:
Right-clicking on the bare URL sometimes selects the word under the mouse cursor:
Other times, it selects nothing:
In the former case, the Copy command copies the selected word:
obsidian
In the latter case, it copies nothing.
With links that have link text, it copies the whole Markdown link, complete with text:
[Obsidian](http://obsidian.md)
…unless that link’s text has multiple words in it:
In this case…
Attempting the Copy command over the first word copies that first word and the opening bracket.
So, this:
yields this: [Obsidian
Attempting the Copy command over the second word…
…copies nothing.
