Re: [O] idea, in-line preview link

[peter . frings]

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.