Lately I've noticed more applications supporting a method of creating a link by pasting a URL. The flow works like this: 1. write some text 2. select the text you want to linkify 3. paste a URL to turn the selected text into a named link
This feature is supported many places (including Matrix, Zulip, GitLab, and many others) and I've found it to be convenient. To that end, I've created a proof of concept package called yank-dwim[1] that implements a yank-dwim-org[2] command, which when used as a replacement for yank in org-yank-generic, produces the effect I'm looking for. What do you think about adding this capability to org-mode? Since many plain-text writing interfaces are offering it, I'm sure other users will appreciate if Emacs does the same. If you're open to a patch, how do you like my implementation in the linked package? I'm happy to take a different approach if you prefer something else. Cheers! Ryan [1] https://github.com/ryanprior/yank-dwim [2] https://github.com/ryanprior/yank-dwim/blob/main/yank-dwim.el#L85
