If you are on Linux, you can use org-cliplink

Sometimes the thing we want to edit is similar to the selection. When the name is long, e.g., a long file name, it is cumbersome to type out the full name. So it is handy to just insert the current selection and continue our edit.

I’ve been using Magit for a long time and haven’t thought about

ag supports the option `-w` to match the whole word. We could find a way to pass this command option in as a prefix argument.

ag supports the option --ignore PATTERN to ignore files/directories whose names match the pattern. We could find a way to pass this command option in as a prefix argument.