Link enhancement modules
Here are 4 modules that provide enhanced linking within CKEditor. They have similar features, but do things in different ways.
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Articles
Modules
Link Checker
Scan content for broken links.
Linked Entity Reference
Provides a field that combines entity reference and a link.
Project updates
Investigate Linked Entity Reference module
Project
Linked Entity Reference provides a field type that combines entity reference and a link.
See how similar this is to Smart Link.
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Investigate Link Content Parser module
Project
This module does some similar things: https://www.drupal.org/project/postlight_parser.
It provides a widget for the link field.
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