[thelist] Copy text with links in brackets

[Tony Crockford]

On 8 Sep 2009, at 18:09, Mohan Arun L wrote:

> I need a way to copy text in web pages that include links so that the
> links get transformed to actual destination urls when they are sent to
> the clipboard.
>
> Example
> Sample tools are Blogger [http://blogger.com], Yola [http://yola.com],
> LiveJournal [http://livejournal.com]
>
> So I can paste the text into a text-only note taking application.
>

Once upon a time mail.app on OS X used to do just that if you dragged  
the url from safari to an open message.

I miss that a lot.

I watch with interest to see if anyone has a solution for you….