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diff --git a/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn b/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn index 93d3b045d..7d5c65c06 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn @@ -64,9 +64,26 @@ Other alternatives would be >> This is, however, still missing specifying the link text, and adding that option would seem to me to complicate the plugin syntax a lot, unless support is added for the |-syntax for specifying a particular parameter to every plugin. +>>> Well, the link text in my example above is "bar". It's true that if +>>> you want to use the same link text for multiple distinct links, or +>>> different link texts for the same link, this is missing a useful layer of +>>> indirection; it's optimised for the (probably) more common case. It +>>> could be done as a degenerate form of the syntax I propose below, BTW. +>>> --[[Joey]] + >> ... Returning to this, the syntax infact wouldn't be so bad with the |-syntax, given a short name for the plugin: [[whatever|ref 1]] \[[ref 1=page_with_long_name]] +>>> A way to do this that doesn't need hacking at the preprocessor syntax +>>> follows: --[[Joey]] + + \[[link bar=1]] + \[[dest 1=page_with_long_name]] + >> It also shouldn't be difficult to support non-wiki links in this same way, so that you could still link everywhere in an uniform manner, as the (still preferred by me) HTML processing approach would provide. Perhaps a plugin call wouldn't even be necessary for the links themselves: what about aliases for the normal link mechanism? Although the 'ref' call may infact be cleaner, and adding that |-syntax for plugins could offer other possibilities for other plugins. + +>>> I agree, it should be easy to make it support non-wiki links too. +>>> We seem to have converged at something we can both live with that's +>>> reasonable to implement.. --[[Joey]] |