Link dialog in description editor should be prefilled with selected text

When editing a description, to add a link I highlight text and click the "link" icon.  Usually I end up having to immediately retype the text I just selected into the metaweb link field.  Seems like it might make sense to pre-fill that field with the selected text to save time (or even run a search on the selected text, and present the metaweb "I'm feeling lucky" result as one of the radio button options). more

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