I just noticed that if I drag & drop a tiddler from its title (set to link from settings) to the edit area, I will get a link “[[tiddler]]” but if I do the same for journal tiddler, then I do not get a link. Just “tiddler” with no brackets. I tried to find a setting for this but could not. Is there a place where I can change the behaviour to always give me a bracketed link?
If you drag the link - select the link text - SHIFT-ALT-L is the keyboard shortcut to cover the text selection into a link. See the toolbar button tooltips.