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author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
commit | f398ad035b973608d380c9939ea845d8e2a0cdc2 (patch) | |
tree | 1ba1a0c94e375ab8ed609eaa57a542c6b87de5a8 /doc/todo/link_plugin_perhaps_too_general__63__.mdwn | |
parent | 958e5735c946263a111420fe47abe58782581e8c (diff) | |
parent | 6d213a0c739d5b34357b01a616f99197eeba6ad9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.ikiwiki.info
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diff --git a/doc/todo/link_plugin_perhaps_too_general__63__.mdwn b/doc/todo/link_plugin_perhaps_too_general__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8a5fd50eb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/link_plugin_perhaps_too_general__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!tag wishlist blue-sky]] +(This isn't important to me - I don't use MediaWiki or Creole syntax myself - +but just thinking out loud...) + +The [[ikiwiki/wikilink]] syntax IkiWiki uses sometimes conflicts with page +languages' syntax (notably, [[plugins/contrib/MediaWiki]] and [[plugins/Creole]] +want their wikilinks the other way round, like +`\[[plugins/write|how to write a plugin]]`). It would be nice if there was +some way for page language plugins to opt in/out of the normal wiki link +processing - then MediaWiki and Creole could have their own `linkify` hook +that was only active for *their* page types, and used the appropriate +syntax. + +In [[todo/matching_different_kinds_of_links]] I wondered about adding a +`\[[!typedlink to="foo" type="bar"]]` directive. This made me wonder whether +a core `\[[!link]]` directive would be useful; this could be a fallback for +page types where a normal wikilink can't be done for whatever reason, and +could also provide extension points more easily than WikiLinks' special +syntax with extra punctuation, which doesn't really scale? + +Straw-man: + + \[[!link to="ikiwiki/wikilink" desc="WikiLinks"]] + +--[[smcv]] |