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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn | 11 |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn b/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn index 0f8badae8..7b3dbbd55 100644 --- a/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ of very simple text parsing or regex application, to make it possible to write shortcuts like these: [[mmlist listname@lists.example.org]] -> <listname@example.org> ([mailman page] (http://lists.example.org/mailman/listinfo/listname) - [[debchangelog packagename]] -> [packagename changelog](http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/packagename/current/changelog) + [[debcl packagename]] -> [packagename changelog](http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/packagename/current/changelog) For shortcut definitions, a `match` parameter could supply a regex, and then the `url` and `desc` parameters could make use of the named or numbered groups from the match. @@ -21,3 +21,12 @@ special-purpose plugins. It should be very simple to write plugins for the above two examples, that look identical to the user as what you described. --[[Joey]] + +Fair enough. I only proposed regexes for the purposes of generality. + +That said, some simple text substitution mechanisms might handle many of these +cases without the need for a specialized plugin beyond [[plugins/shortcut]]. +For instance, substring extraction would suffice for the `debcl` shortcut, and +something like a split function would work for the `mmlist` shortcut. + +--[[JoshTriplett]] |