If I copy some text in a web browser that contains a link where the link label is the same as the URL, the link has some “unnecessary” repetition. For example:
When pasting HTML, if a link’s label happens to be the same as the URL, then do not create an element like [](), but instead just write the URL: https://kielikompassi.jyu.fi/opetus/natfrasch/tehtavat/hr_sanaj_relatiivi1.htm.
This is easier to read in the editor mode when the link is not so long anymore. (In preview mode it does not matter, looks the same anyway).
I understand that this is a matter of taste: some might want to always create []() elements. Could this be a toggleable option?
I don’t know what OS you’re using, but on Windows and Linux I can use Ctrl-Shift-V (instead of Ctrl-V) and it will paste just the link without the surrounding Markdown decoration.
Yea, that’s a good point! I’m using Windows and have used that hotkey in other situations when I have wanted to avoid HTML formatting to be pasted. It’s quite a good workaround, but I can still see a use case for wanting to paste other HTML formatting, but keeping simple URL links as plain text.
For example, I might be copying and pasting a text that contains multiple links with different “styles”.
Some links would be like the one I mentioned before:
If I copy all of the links at once, and paste into Obsidian by pressing Ctrl + Shift + V, the latter link will become just Swedish exercise with no url at all (= not a link anymore).
But your proposal is a really good solution for many cases, even if some edge cases are uncovered.
