Notepad's "text copy" behaviour

You could try notetab light. It is a free tabbed text editor that I had used for years but didn't install it on my last couple of computers. There is a paid version as well as the free one but the free one works very well and allows you to select a weblink by triple clicking on it.

Here is a llink to it's download page :The Portable Freeware Collection - NoteTab Light

When the selection highlight ends:

• Move the mouse pointer to the end of the link
• Hold the Shift key down
• Left click with the mouse (with the pointer still at the end of the link)

I just tried this using Notepad++, a free and excellent text editor, and it worked as I believe you want. It's available here:
Notepad++ Home

I tried running notepad.exe from XP on Win 8, same parsing problem, so it's an OS change, not a notepad change. There may be a way to change "white space" detection at the OS level.

I use Wordpad for storing links. From Wordpad you can start a webpage directly by clicking on it.

In fact I have pinned Wordpad to my taskbar so that I have it always handy.

Bellzemos said:

Good idea! But is there a way to disable the WordPad from asking me if I want to go to the specific website every time I click on a link?

I don't understand why you would want that. Wordpad stores a hyperlink - not the text of the link.