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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.
>=20
> 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.

=46rom a UX pov, changing the clipboard/kill-ring behind the user=92s =
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=92s better to provide an explicit command to =
copy/insert/open/... the content of that link.

Cheers,
Peter.