Good day all, On 05 Apr 2012, at 13:55, Christian Moe wrote:
> One of my first Lisp projects was a link type that behaves a bit like what > you describe. > > I don't bother with placing the snippet inline, though, I just flash it as a > message in the minibuffer. But I also leave it on the kill ring, so I can C-y > it into my current buffer if I like. From a UX pov, changing the clipboard/kill-ring behind the user’s back is a bad thing to do, especially when the intention of the user action is only to have a quick look at that link. Suppose org-mode copied a whole sub-tree when all you did was to expand it... just in case you wanted to copy a piece of it. In my opinion, it’s better to provide an explicit command to copy/insert/open/... the content of that link. Cheers, Peter.
