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> there is nothing "basic" about this

It's how both major desktop OSes have worked for literally decades. It works very well. Why be different?

Mimicking hyperlinks doesn't make sense because you never want to move hyperlinks around or rename them. There's rarely a reason to select a hyperlink.



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