Inline Query Results: Please allow us to Select and Copy these as text or markdown

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@GLight

I think enable the user to copy the markdown shown in the search result items can be fair enough.

Yes, I was hoping to find a way of copying the content of pretty much any code block that renders the results of some kind of query. I suppose this would fall under this feature request.

@TMR123

If you access the command menu (CMD P on my Mac), and run Export to PDF, the whole page, including the inline search results, are converted to text in the PDF

Thanks for pointing that out. Although I’m not sure how often I will actually use this procedure in practice, it fact that it is possible makes me optimistic that it already is possible to capture these query results programmatically.

Note that there is an even easier (manual) way: if you select only the output of the query and none of the surrounding note, then you can actually copy the markdown right there. I have not tested this extensively, but it works for task queries and dataview queries. It is a bit tricky, but if you manage to get the selection right, it works.

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Save dataview query result to a note

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