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  1. XWiki Platform
  2. XWIKI-19960

Improve the link creation workflow

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    Description

      In addition to CKEDITOR-106 to speed up link creation, in particular for external links, I'd like the following workflow to be supported:

      • I select the text in the editor
      • I hit CTRL-K to open the link editor (ie. CKEDITOR-106)
      • The focus is directly in the field (it's already the case actually, but for internal links)
      • I just CTRL-V the link I have in my clipboard
      • It should automatically notice it's an external link and switch the icon from internal to external links
      • Then ENTER or CTRL-ENTER should allow me to apply the creation of the link and close the dialog box.

      With that workflow, I'm super efficient: text selection, and then CTRL-K, CTRL-V, CTRL-ENTER (or ENTER), and I'm done. No need to use the mouse whatsoever.

      I've seen other users paste the link in the text field, and click ok. But since that's no viable local link, the text becomes underline but links to # by default.

      Ideally, implementation-wise, somehow, I think there should be just one text field, not one text-field per kind of link. Because if I notice I mistakenly created a local link, when I then click on the external link icon, I'm losing what I had put into the text field, and I have to repaste or retype it. This is painful.

      The text field should automatically recognize it's an external link, and make the change automatically in the dialog box. It would be much nicer.

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            glaforge Guillaume Laforge
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