The Editor Should Have an External Link Prettylink Button

[pmario]

The Editor Should Have an External Link Prettylink Button

Expected behaviour

• https://example.com/something is selected
• New Button clicked
• Dropdown should open a dialogue similar to Discourse

[pmario]

nemo wrote at Talk

Could it be smart? If the selection is identifiable as a URL, then prompt for the pretty link. Otherwise assume it’s already the final text and just needs a target added. Could this behavior even be rolled into the existing “Create wikitext link” button? (It would be a behavior change for it which I understand would be offputting, but if a URL is never selected then it would behave the same as it always has - and the current behavior isn’t friendly to anyone wanting to turn an existing URL in the text into a link, so I’d wonder if it’s ever used that way?)