Select or remove default URL when inserting a link

[GregSands]

In the message composition window, when the Insert/Edit Link button is clicked, the Link URL contains the default value "http://".  More than once I've pasted a link into this field without deleting the default, and the link is obviously then wrong!  My guess is that links are much more often pasted than typed in. 

I suggest that one of these changes be made:

1. have the default URL selected so that a paste will overwrite it, or
2. remove the default URL, or
3. check the URL once entered and flag it if it is obviously wrong

#1 is my preference, as those wanting to type a URL just press End first, which they currently need to do anyway. Anyone else have any strong feelings on this?

1. remove the default URL, or

[GregSands]

Silly me - I've posted before searching, rather than the other way around.  This has already been noted here, here and here.  Mea culpa.

[smercurio_fc]

Yeah, and one that still hasn't been fixed. Must not be a high-level priority for them.

[altenbach]

Yes' it's one of the longstanding very annoying bugs. It exists also on every lithium forum elsewhere, and there are quite a few.

The most intuitive way would be to show a tpyical example (e.g. "http://SomeSiteElsewhere.com/main.htm") but greyed out whenever the field is otherwise empty. This text would immediately disappear as soon as we start typing (or pasting) something.