Story

When creating external links from comments in Jira/Service Desk, I need the URL portion of the added syntax to automatically highlight, so that I can immediately type the URL I want without clicking and dragging to select sample URL first.

Description

When creating external links from a comment, I have to select the text I want to be the link, choose to make an external link (which adds the syntax for me) and then I have to click and drag to select the URL section of the syntax so that I can type in what I actually want.  If it would automatically highlight that for me it would be a MUCH better experience.

Video demo:  http://fiber.angelleye.com/video/jira-external-links-from-comments.mp4

Maybe there's some other way I should go about this to make it better..??  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

 

(Original Ref:  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-discussions/Simple-way-to-improve-experience-with-external-linking-from/m-p/828543)