Word in Discord app is highlighted; my URL is already in clipboard; how to turn it into a link

[griffman]

I wrote a link tool to do things just like that:

MACRO: Yet Another HTML Link Creator

There are many of these around, but I didn't find one that worked like I needed to cover my three possible possible use cases, which are: I have some text selected in an editor, and want to wrap it in the href tag and paste the URL that I've copied from somewhere. Something like this: <a href="{paste}">{selected text}</a> I don't have a copied URL, but I don't have any selected text, so I just want to insert the href tag, and put the cursor in position so I can type the link text, like thi…

In mine, if you have text selected and a URL on the clipboard, it will paste it as a HTML link. You'd need to modify the macro to write it in markdown form, but it shouldn't be too tricky to do that.

-rob.