Keyboard shortcut for creating link with clipboard on adjacent word

Feature archive
1

Use case or problem

Currently it take multiple keypresses to create a link from a single word using URL in your clipboard. The suggestion here is to get it done with single shortcut.

I quite commonly have a URL in my clipboard (e.g. I copied it from some website or from browser URL bar) and I write some text (often formatted, e.g. a in a list) and I’d like to create a link from the last word I used with the URL from the clipboard.

Current approach = 3 shortcuts

Currently I’m using plugin Code Editor Shortcuts, which gives me “Ctrl+D: select word.”

  1. Write a word, e.g. “notes”, my cursor is after the s
  2. Press Ctrl+D to highlight “notes”
  3. Press Ctrl+K to turn the word into a link
  4. Press Ctrl+V to paste the URL

Proposal

Add a a single shortcut, that does the same thing, e.g. Ctrl+L.

I tried looking and I have not found a way to do this currently.

2

Have you looked at the “Paste URL into selection” plugin. It does replace selection with URL in clipboard (or at least has an option to do that).

1 Like
3

Perfect! That does exactly what I asked for. (I did not think to search for “paste”)

4

This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.