AutoLink should work on pasting plain-text URL from clipboard

[itsopi]

Edit: Currently we do not support auto-linking plain-text URLs when pasting. 

User have to press space after pasting to create a link. The idea is to enable (by default or by configuration) auto-link on pasting plain-text URL.

Original issue below:

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📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Paste https://google.bg to notepad (windows).
2. Copy the link.
3. Paste the link into editor.

✔️ Expected result

To be converted as a link.

❌ Actual result

Plain text...

📃 Other details

• Browser: Any
• OS: Any
• CKEditor version: latest
• Installed CKEditor plugins: does not matter, Link is included

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[Mgsy]

Hi, did you see our Autolink feature?

[itsopi]

Autolink does not solve this scenario. I can reproduce it even in the examples.

[jodator]

@hpivanov To be on the same page. The default behaviour is such:

1. paste link
2. press space
3. autolink

as below (pasting alone will not trigger this):

Or there's a problem with Windows + Notepad + paste in CKEditor 5 + space scenario?

[itsopi]

@jodator Autolink works as expected when I press 'Space'. My expectations are that by making Ctrl + V (paste), autolink will execute, and convert the text to a link. Is this possible?

[jodator]

My expectations are that by making Ctrl + V (paste), autolink will execute, and convert the text to a link. Is this possible?

For now we don't have this in mind AFAIR. It is doable of course.

If you don't mind I'll make your issue as a feature request to make that clear.

[oleq]

More or less a duplicate of #6629. Also related to #5656.

[jodator]

More or less a duplicate of #6629.

A bit, but here we don't have HTML in data transfer. As I get this pasting http://ckeditor.com from text-editor (eg Notepad).

[wojtekidd]

I would consider this feature a very-nice-to-have - it's currently implemented in both Slack and Atlassian tools.

Edit: works in Confluence tables and NOT in Confluence articles. Haven't checked in Jira.

[benediktarnold]

Another good reason to have this implemented sooner:
Currently the behaviour is inconsistent with media embed .
Media embed automatically evaluates a pasted link and embedds the video if it is a YT or Vimeo link whereas any other link requires a 'Space' or 'Enter' after pasting before it gets detected.

[asimkt]

I would like to add this feature if somebody can guide me on which file should be changing? Or is there a simpler way where I can create a plugin which does only this? @jodator

[Boniqx]

Hi guys! Great work on ckeditor! Just curious if this feature is already available. Thanks a lot

[ayush20892]

Is this feature available with CKEditor, or Autolink just work with space and enter.

[MoritzLost]

+1 for the ability to automatically create links from URLs when copy/pasting content. Another use-case: Sometimes you need to paste text that includes a bunch of links or e-mail-addresses. Those don't get converted on paste, so you have to manually convert them, or search them all in the text and press space after each one.