Remove link

Hi, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make text that looks (to Bike) like a link not a link. For example, if I type foo.bar.com, Bike thinks this is potentially a link and formats it that way. I don’t see a way to tell Bike that this is not a link and I don’t want it formatted as if it was.

I can select the text and choose “Edit Link…”, but no matter what I do, the “Remove” button is not enabled. If I edit the link, remove the URL, and “Save LInk,” this has no effect.

At a guess, I would say that about 95% of the time I type or paste something that Bike thinks looks like a link, it is not actually a functional link. So I’d really like to be able to make things like that not links. Is there a way? Thanks.

I wonder if you have had a chance to explore Bike > Settings… > AutoCorrect

where you can check, under Formatting, whether Use smart links is enabled ?

(It sounds like you would prefer that option to be unchecked)

I wonder if you have had a chance to explore Bike > Settings… > AutoCorrect

That’s the answer, and unfortunately there isn’t any other way. Either Bike will automatically highlight everything that looks like a link, or it will highlight nothing… though you can alway select some text and either:

  1. Format > Add Link (Command-K)
  2. Paste, and if the pasteboard text looks like a link it will be added to selected text as a link, instead of replacing that text.

Thank you both very much! Not sure how I overlooked that preference, but I did. This is fine for me: no automatic links and when I want something to be a link, I’ll just make it one manually.

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