The Linkit module allow site editors to work in a more comfortable way when linking to internal entities (i.e. content, users, taxonomy terms, files, comments, etc.) and when linking to external content as well.

The benefit of the module is that your editors won’t have to copy and paste URLs of content they're linking to, instead the module provides an autocomplete field, which they can use to search for content.

Linkit works based on a profile system. You can choose as many or as few plugins (linking options) for each profile and then assign each profile to a particular text format. This provides an extra layer of granularity, because the linking permissions are granted in the text editor and not within Linkit. That way you can add multiple roles or just one role to a Linkit profile.