Question: I can get the link to a **question** by hovering the cursor over its title. What's the smart way to get a direct link to one of the **answers**? The only way I know is to go to the user's page and hunt for it there. So I am clearly missing something.

Answer: 
All posts (questions and answers) have a "share" link beneath them, in the same area where the "edit" link is. This brings up a pop-up with a short URL that links directly to the question or answer.
It does work, even with long titles. However, this is *display feature* (appearance only) and is subject to change. It's not the same as button that creats a real text string of the form: `[title](url)` which you can copy/paste anywhere without depending on the page to regenerate the appearance of the title. 

Also, ~~I'm not sure what happens to the title generation/appearance~~ if the original post is deleted the displayed text reverts back to the bare url (per comments below, thanks folks!).

Testing `https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1128/12102`

[Slightly nonstandard questions from new users frequently getting the silent, drive-by insta-close votes, can something be done?](https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1128/12102)

Testing `https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1112/12102`

[Is voting to close a question for "primarily opinion-based answers" while answering with fact exercising faulty logic, or even gamesmanship?](https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1112/12102)

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However it doesn't seem to work for questions from another site:

<https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22022/did-the-space-shuttle-boat-tail-used-in-the-transport-configuration-save-fuel>

so [here](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/36319/12102) I've done it manually again. Here's how it looked before my edit (after I re-pasted the url just to make sure):

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> ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GAcSU.png)
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