Before, when choosing Insert link in the Message field’s toolbar, you were presented a field where you could 1) add the URL, click OK and then another field, in which you could 2) write whatever you’d like, and then 3) click OK. This allowed you to create a hyperlink called whatever you liked to.
Some dopers can do this today too, but I can’t. When I klick Insert link while writing this for instance, I get Please enter the URL for this link dialog box, but when I click OK, I don’t get to choose what to call it, like I used to up until a few months ago I think, but are thrown back to the Message field with an URL.
When I use the insert link button without selecting text first, it generates the default link caption as the URL itself. This is selected, so it’s replaced when I just start typing the caption I want. This is actually kind of slick, and it’s better than the previous implementation.
It has actually always worked like that, although before, you first got a window with the text. That text defaulted to the highlighted text in your post. If you hit OK it went to the next window with the URL.