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What's the rationale for the shift from Ctrl+k to Ctrl+v for adding a hyperlink to text?

I find it confusing because I expect different behavior from Ctrl+v (replace with clipboard contents).

Eliot Lash

@ntnsndr so far I have only seen this done in slack and it seems wrong. What if you intended to overwrite the selected text with the contents of your clipboard instead?

@Eliot_L it is also used in @matrix and I think Notion. Seems more common now than Ctrl+k, which I only now encounter in dinosaurs like Google Docs and @thunderbird

@ntnsndr @Eliot_L @thunderbird rationale seems to be "ctrl+k = fast switcher; ctrl+v = paste. but if you paste a URL over something, turn it into a hyperlink"

@thunderbird @Eliot_L @matrix Indeed you are a beautiful dinosaur that flies me through every day:)