fix: Improve behavior when pasting urls to auto-link them

Author: tommoor

src/plugins/MarkdownPaste.ts

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export default class MarkdownPaste extends Extension {
                 return true;
               }
 
-              // Is this link embedable? Create an embed!
+              // Is this link embeddable? Create an embed!
               const { embeds } = this.editor.props;
 
               if (embeds) {
@@ -49,10 +49,22 @@ export default class MarkdownPaste extends Extension {
                   }
                 }
               }
+
+              // well, it's not an embed and there is no text selected – so just
+              // go ahead and insert the link directly
+              const transaction = view.state.tr
+                .insertText(text, state.selection.from, state.selection.to)
+                .addMark(
+                  state.selection.from,
+                  state.selection.to + text.length,
+                  state.schema.marks.link.create({ href: text })
+                );
+              view.dispatch(transaction);
+              return true;
             }
 
-            // otherwise, if we have html then fallback to the default HTML
-            // parser behavior that comes with Prosemirror.
+            // otherwise, if we have html on the clipboard then fallback to the
+            // default HTML parser behavior that comes with Prosemirror.
             if (text.length === 0 || html) return false;
 
             event.preventDefault();