Feature Request: Support web links in tasks on Ctrl + Click.

[John Bentley]

In the notes field of a task web links (prefaced by "http://") are supported. That is, clicking on the link opens it in one's default browser.

My request is to make web links also open one's default browser with a keyboard and mouse combination, my preference being ctrl + click. Ctrl + click is the behaviour in MS word and my preferred text editor. It seems to becoming a defacto standard.

A simple click on a task, to open the link, wouldn't do, as that's how you edit a task.

[Stéph]

Personally I prefer the click to open functionality. To edit the text, you can still drag to select or use the keyboard to position your cursor (perhaps more like how you edit links I Excel, rather than Word). I hope those two options can become intuitive for you too.

Stéphane

[John Bentley]

Apologies Stéphane for not responding nearer in time to your response (I wasn't subscribed to the topic, I am now).

The most efficient current procedure to get a link from MLO into a browser involves:

1. In MLO. Click node to edit (as you suggest).

2. In ML. Ctrl + A to select all the text of node, in the case that the node contains only a link; or (as you suggest) using mouse or keyboard to manually select the text.

3. In MLO. Ctrl + C to copy the link.

4. In Browser. Ctrl + V to paste the link

5. In Browser. [Enter] to execute web page loading.

There's nothing unintuitive about this procedure, at least for those of us at a minimal level of computer literacy. The problem is, rather, that's an ineffecient procedure compared to  *ctrl + click to open a link* functionality.

Note also introducing *ctrl + click to open a link* functionality would not interfere with *click to edit a node* functionality. So it's not a choice of one functionality over another.

[Stéph]

We might be talking at cross-purposes here. In the desktop copy of MLO, I can hover over a link in the Notes pane and my mouse turns to a pointing finger. I don't have to hold ctrl, I just click and it opens the link in my browser. I thought that you were saying you didn't like that and you wanted to replace it with Ctrl+click to access the link, like in MS Word. Now I understand that you're proposing setting up a keyboard shortcut combination to open the link, so that you don't have to use the mouse - is that right?

[John Bentley]

Apologies, my original post was not clear. It's better to ignore it.

My suggestion is with respect to desktop MLO. There's two contexts here with respect to what happens with a URL. In the notes, and in a node (a task). My suggestion has to do with links in a node. Links in the notes are fine in that they a clickable. Links in a node are not fine, in that they are not clickable.

For a node I suggest making links clickable by using a ctrl + click keyboard combination.

That is, while preserving in a node the *click to edit a node* functionality; and preserving in a note the *click to open a link* functionality.

If that change was made I'd be satisfied.

However, if that change was made then, for a consistent user experience, it might be better to also add ctrl + click keyboard combination *open a link* functionality to notes, in addition to nodes.  That is, while preserving in a node the *click to edit a node* functionality; and preserving in a note the *click to open a link* functionality.

[Stéph]

Got it! In that case, I agree - It makes sense to be able to open a link in a task heading, using ctrl+click to avoid making the mistake of opening a link when all you're doing is to select the task (or folder). That would be 
worth sending in as a suggestion.