Can't copy/paste aliases from the timeline into the composer anymore for commands

[turt2live]

I often highlight aliases in the timeline so I can /join them more easily. The composer now pastes the alias as a markdown link, which the /join command obviously doesn't like.

[turt2live]

Also happens when pasting a plain link into the composer, which is super annoying.

[t3chguy]

/me would recommend Control Shift V
not sure what the desired outcome is here, as the composer is in a way doing the right thing
just is annoying

[t3chguy]

(I cannot repro it on plain links)

[turt2live]

[t3chguy]

right so we have different definitions of

plain link

I would argue the Composer is doing the right thing here, since you are not pasting plaintext

[turt2live]

Not sure what I was smoking to think it was a plain link. Maybe copy/pasted from the timeline?

[t3chguy]

at which point it'll have been linkified :/

[t3chguy]

It was concluded this is a feature, it's how gmail, google docs etc function. If you wish to avoid it, Control Shift V

[turt2live]

That's a very silly feature to be completely honest. If this was a truly rich editor, I wouldn't mind it automatically linkifying for me - that's actually useful. Given this is a markdown entry, I'd rather it be representative of plain text and therefore require my manual effort to have this stuff happen.

[t3chguy]

It's not automatically linkifying for you though, it's representing what you pasted. Imagine I post <a href="https://...">this</a>
The old composer paste would have pasted "this" now it pastes exactly what you copied: a link

[turt2live]

That's completely backwards in my perspective: I would have copied the text "this", not a link. If I wanted the link, I would have asked for the link via a context menu :/

It's clear that I'm nto going to win this fight though - Can it at least be an option? I'd really like to just have the composer be as close as possible to "just send the text I want to send without being helpful".

[t3chguy]

That's not down to me, it was M's doing

[t3chguy]

/me personally likes things being options so people can be happier with how they use riot

[lampholder]

Flagged as bug question because at the moment there isn't really a satisfactory combination of labels that represent this I think.

[turt2live]

My understanding is that rich pasting is being turned off (yay!), however as another data point: the "Copy Permalink" option on github results in slate trying to wrap the URL in a code block, followed by a ton of extra newlines.

[lampholder]

Which 'Copy permalink' thing is that?

[turt2live]