Scripting News: Cute paste for WordLand

Thursday October 9, 2025; 9:39 AM EDT

Note this is for the 0.8 release of WordLand coming soooon. Not in the current released product. #
A friend asked for this feature a few months back, before we had a Markdown mode in WordLand. #
As I'm reviewing the product for first beta I realized I could now implement the feature he asked for.#
Here's how to.#

Copy a URL to the clipboard.#
Open WordLand, bring it to the front.#
Go into Markdown mode by clicking the M icon. It turns green.#
Select the text you want to be a link.#
Paste the URL copied in step 1.#

It creates the link for you, in Markdown syntax of course. #
To see it in HTML, just flip the Markdown button off.#
I call this feature Cute Paste. :-)#
A video demo.#

Last update: Thursday October 9, 2025; 12:27 PM EDT.

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