hi @Tsevener could you look into this task (timeboxed to less than 1 hr) and see if it might be related to the system navigation changes?

@HNordeenWMF Yes, this looks like a regression from system nav bar. On 7.6.4 (pre-system nav bar), the editor pre-populated the Insert Link search bar text with the text the user highlighted.

Hello. So the expected behavior is when a highlighted word is selected, and the link button is pressed, it should call the search function and return the relevant results?

I would like to work on a fix for this.
Is this handled in the EditorViewController or ArticleViewController class or am I looking in the wrong files?

Hi @KelCodesStuff !

Thanks for looking into this!

The video Toni shared highlights the expected behavior if you'd like a video, but the goal is for the highlighted word to have the link button pressed, and then when search opens up, we want the highlighted word to be in the search bar, and a search to have already been kicked off. As far as files, I'd recommend starting by looking in InsertLinkViewController - there's a Link struct that should hopefully be prepopulated with the highlighted word.

Let us know if you have any other questions, and thank you again!

Hi @GOlson-WMF @HNordeenWMF !

I was able to get this working by modifying the viewDidAppear method to check if the Link object has a page value, if it does, it populates the search bar with the text.

Here is the video.

Here’s the PR

Can be tested on 7.7.3 (5099)

Appears to be fixed on 7.7.3 (5140)

thanks @KelCodesStuff !

@HNordeenWMF you’re welcome!