Mentioning mailto: in Manuals

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Sean Godley
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Mentioning mailto: in Manuals

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Hi all,

I'm having an issue as I need to mention the option of using a "mailto" URI in several places of the manual I'm writing. However, when I enter it in Help and Manual, it creates a link automatically to send an email from the local browser, which I do not want. How do I change this? The normal editing options do not appear to be effective.

Many thanks,

Sean
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Martin Wynne
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Hi Sean,

Select the link, then right-click on it and Convert to plain text.

regards,

Martin.
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Hi Sean,

In addition to Martin's corrective fix, you can also turn off automatic link creation entirely if you wish. The setting is in View > Program Options > Editor: Automatically detect URLs when typing text. :)
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Sean Godley
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Re: Mentioning mailto: in Manuals

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Perfect. Thank you both.

Sean
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