When using the WML editor, it is easy to create a link but just adding the bracket around the link. It is very easy to do this and it is one of the strengths of wikis. Unfortunately, doing the same thing in the WYSIWYG editor requires about four or five clicks and a copy and paste etc. This is one of the few operations that is much slower in the WYSIWYG editor, but unfortunately I think it is one of the most critical.

Here are a couple of solutions:
1) Add a new button to the WYSIWYG tool bar that does the job for us. I would like to be able to hightlight a word or phrase and then just click on the 'quick link' button to make the hightlighted text turn in to a link. A short cut key would be nice too.
2) Modify the 'Link Properties' dialog box so the highlighted text in the 'Link' field is prepopulated in the same was as the 'Alias' field. Note it would be fantastic if the 'Search' field was prepopulated with the same text so I could see if the page already exists. Creating a link to a page that unexpectedly exists is a special 'wiki moment' that puts a smile on people faces when they realise someone has already done their work before them!

I really think that this would improve the usage of the WYSIWYG enormously for a very small development cost.

Cheers,

James.