Thanks for your help,
Kriss and
Raven!
Looking at the messages I made with
baAD links, I see that my Typinator abbreviation is wrong. The new versions of the app must have made some changes.
The Typinator abbreviation was:
[b][url = "{clip}"]LINK_TEXT[/url][/b]However, looking at the text with those bad links, they have
http:// added!
So the inserted text becomes:
[b][url="http://"https://tidbits"]LINK_TEXT[/url][/b]Obviously "http://"https://..." makes the link unusable.
Edited Typinator abbreviation:
[b][color=purple][url={clip}]LINK_TEXT[/url][/color][/b]I think this works.

The
elusive TB link!
I normally type the post with the proposed
link text included. I then move the cursor to the beginning of that link text and type the Typinator abbreviation, a
period and
tsk. Four key presses and two copies and pastes.