Link support, especially with closing punctuation

[wbt]

In documents, I frequently have a point followed by a URL in parentheses. Pasting or typing a URL in an Etherpad, as long as it has the protocol, will automatically create a link (#143), but the close parentheses are part of the link unless separated from the link by a nongrammatical space.

However, clicking in the link between the last character of the URL and the close parentheses automatically follows the link (often to a 404 error) instead of letting the user fix the link. Up to this point, that's a bug with unexpected software behavior negatively affecting what a user can do.

There does not seem to be an easily discoverable popup via toolbar button, right-click menu, or keyboard shortcut to change the link target, or to make text into a hyperlink so the document isn't quite so full of hard-to-read URLs interrupting flow.

The only workaround I've found is to click the Pad Settings (gear icon), activate Show Markdown, and learn markdown. This is not a good workaround for typical / new users.

I propose the following changes, with this Issue primarily focused on the first (please post updates below if you open separate Issues for others):

1. Omit non-alphanumeric closing punctuation preceding a space from automatically created links. MS Word, GitHub's editor, and others might have some inspiration to model from.
2. Have an option to require CTRL+Click in order to follow a link, to ease link editing.
3. Add an edit hyperlink dialog with fields for the link destination (href), the displayed text, and maybe an "open in new tab" checkbox, which I would have on by default. The link destination (href) field has focus when this dialog comes up, for easy pasting of a copied URL. The Enter button submits and dismisses the dialog.
4. Add a toolbar button for the dialog in the previous item. If text is selected when this button is pressed, it is automatically in the displayed text field.
5. Add keyboard shortcuts CTRL+K and CTRL+L to bring up the dialog from two items up in this list.

GitHub and Stack Exchange's editors might also have some inspiration, even if requiring users to learn and use markdown.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[wbt]

Why is this WONTFIX?

[JohnMcLear]

Because plugins exist to change link behaviour. Search the plugins for link and you will see various different approaches... Sorry it should be closed and not left floating around.