Hmm, I have not yet been able to reproduce this.

Here's what I did to test...

Beta

Reply tool flow 1

1. Visit: https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Cats
2. Open the Reply tool's visual mode
3. Type ⌘ + k

4. ✅Observe the link inspector appears as expected:

Reply tool flow 2

1. Visit: https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Cats
2. Open the Reply tool's visual mode
3. Type cats
4. Highlight what you just typed (cats)
5. Type ⌘ + k

6. ✅Observe the link inspector appears as expected:

Article flow 1

1. Visit: https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Cats
2. Open the visual editor
3. Place the cursor within the article w/o any text selected
4. Type ⌘ + k

5. ✅Observe the link inspector appears as expected:

Article flow 2

1. Visit: https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Cats
2. Open the visual editor
3. Select some text
4. Type ⌘ + k

5. ✅Observe the link inspector appears as expected:

EDIT: adding correct beta links

@Ryasmeen can you please have a look at the steps I described taking in T256091#6247204 and let me know if there's something I could be doing differently to reproduce the issue you experienced?

It was pretty straightforward. But I think somehow it got fixed now. We can close this.

In T256091#6269618, @Ryasmeen wrote:

It was pretty straightforward. But I think somehow it got fixed now. We can close this.

Understood. Closing.