doc/todo/link_plugin_perhaps_too_general__63__.mdwn



[[!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]]