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-rw-r--r--basewiki/wikilink.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/space_in_a___91____91__page_link__93____93___doesn__39__t_make_link.mdwn10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn b/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn
index ce9ae2081..c37d1cd00 100644
--- a/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn
+++ b/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ links at the start of a sentence, and so on.
It's also possible to write a WikiLink that uses something other than the
page name as the link text. For example "\[[foo_bar|SandBox]]" links to the
SandBox page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]]
+
+Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks. Replace spaces with
+underscores.
diff --git a/doc/bugs/space_in_a___91____91__page_link__93____93___doesn__39__t_make_link.mdwn b/doc/bugs/space_in_a___91____91__page_link__93____93___doesn__39__t_make_link.mdwn
index 41442a795..3cff71657 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/space_in_a___91____91__page_link__93____93___doesn__39__t_make_link.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/space_in_a___91____91__page_link__93____93___doesn__39__t_make_link.mdwn
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ A moment later ... same thing ... it is not a link (no question mark to create).
Is this documented? How do I create a webpage with space in filename?
+> You use underscores in place of spaces. I've improved the docs a bit.
+> Spaces are not allowed because preprocessor directives look like
+> wikilinks, except they contain one or more spaces.. --[[Joey]]
+
Examples in various files show spaces within the double brackets.
-(By the way, the Page Location dropdown above has underscores for spaces and underscore91underscore and 93 and 39 instead of left bracket, right bracket and single quote. When rendered on final page it will be correct but in the select option box it looks strange.) \ No newline at end of file
+> I don't know of any that do that, can you either point me to them or fix
+> them in the wiki? Note that examples of preprocessor directives _will_
+> contain spaces. --[[Joey]]
+
+(By the way, the Page Location dropdown above has underscores for spaces and underscore91underscore and 93 and 39 instead of left bracket, right bracket and single quote. When rendered on final page it will be correct but in the select option box it looks strange.)