https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57200

James Forrester <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|Unprioritized               |Low
             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
            Summary|Link tool: long links are   |VisualEditor: Long links
                   |not shown in full           |are not shown in full in
                   |                            |the link searcher

--- Comment #1 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> When a long string (24 characters or more) gets added in the link tool (a
> typical long URL, or a just a long article title), the external and internal
> link options get shortened with "..." in the middle. This can make it hard to
> know whether you put in the right string or not, and there doesn't seem to be
> much downside to displaying the full link targets for at least moderately
> longer strings.

The downside is that the link needs to fit on the screen for the user to read
it. :-)

I'm not happy with the idea of a hugely-wide search results pane masking much
of the screen unnecessarily, but I also think that expanding and contracting as
needed could be a bit of an eyesore…

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