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by ivanhoe 748 days ago
I really like this.

How about enabling user to select any piece of text and use it the way the links work now?

For instance, I've noticed it doesn't linkify peoples' names, and one thing I love on Wikipedia is that you can easily lookup people mentioned in the text. So, rather than having thousand links in the page, it would be handy if I could just select the name in the text, click some button (or right-click menu item), and get the new prompt based on the selection (user having to click a few extra times for this custom use-case wouldn't be a problem IMO)

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Yeah I asked it about 8-bit Atari computers and it mentioned that they had MOS 6502 CPU's but did not linkify that part, which would have been where I wanted to go down the rabbit hole next.