How to remove all the links in the document?

[Reinmar]

Use case – you paste a content from some website and it contains numerous links. You want to get rid of all of them. How to do that at once?

#4751 removes the unlink button from the toolbar. This means that now you can't select all content and press the button.

https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-link/issues/31#issuecomment-316992952 considers adding a more useful link tooltip but it won't allow batch unlinking.

Perhaps we should think about solution such as proposed by @oleq in https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-link/issues/31#issuecomment-316992952.

[fredck]

I've just checked GDocs and Medium. None of them have this feature as well.

I understand that we can picture a drastic use case for it, but I don't remember ever facing such issue and I was wondering if this is really critical.

[fredck]

Actually, I remember a case like this and I pasted without formatting, which worked well for me. So I assume users will figure something out.

Alternatively, for power users, we may consider adding a shortcut key for that scope, in the future, based on feedback.

[Reinmar]

Sure, I'm not claiming that this is something that happens every day. I don't recall ever doing this myself.

I just wanted to have this reported because we kinda introduced this situation by removing the unlink button.

[Reinmar]

I've just stumbled myself upon this. I linked the entire content (including a big table) and I realised that even I don't know how to fix that.

However, there's a way:

1. Select the whole content that you want to clear.
2. Press Ctrl+K.
3. Create a link on it (any URL will do) or just submit the link URL form that was displayed.
4. After submitting that link a link action balloon will be displayed and you can click the "Unlink" button there. All links will be removed.

It's an edge case still to have to deal with that many links, but we certainly have a problem here. And I can imagine that so many links can e.g. be inserted when pasting a content from some heavily styled website.

[oleq]

Alternatively, for power users, we may consider adding a shortcut key for that scope, in the future, based on feedback.

I second this along with #1014.

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