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diff --git a/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn b/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn index 38df00f..bd5e3d1 100644 --- a/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]] WikiLinks provide easy linking between pages of the wiki. To create a [[WikiLink]], just put the name of the page to link to in double brackets. For example `\[[WikiLink]]`. @@ -22,6 +23,14 @@ page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]]. To link to an anchor inside a page, you can use something like `\[[WikiLink#foo]]` -**Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks**. Replace spaces with -underscores. The presence of spaces is used to distinguish between a -[[PreprocessorDirective]] and a WikiLink. +## Preprocessor directives and wikilinks + +ikiwiki has two syntaxes for +[[preprocessor_directives|PreprocessorDirective]]. The older syntax +used spaces to distinguish between preprocessor directives and +wikilinks; as a result, with that syntax in use, you cannot use spaces +in WikiLinks, and must replace spaces with underscores. The newer +syntax, enabled with the `prefix_directives` option in an ikiwiki +setup file, prefixes directives with `!`, and thus does not prevent +links with spaces. Future versions of ikiwiki will turn this option +on by default. |