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Ask HN: Paste URL onto text to create a hyperlink

1 points by dandare ↗ HN
Slack has this fantastic feature: when you have a valid URL in your clipboard and you select a piece of text (in the window where you write messages) and press CTRL+V, the selected text is not replaced with the URL from clipboard but instead the selected text is turned into a hyperlink pointing to that URL.

How would you call this feature?

Is there maybe a browser extension that would do the same in a browser?

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compressedgas
> An autolink is a hyperlink that was automatically added to some text to link that text to an obvious or useful destination, like hyperlinking a URL in plaintext to the URL itself, linking hashtags to search results, and @-names to their profile pages.

> -- https://indieweb.org/autolink

dandare
That is something slightly different, but thanks!