doc/todo/shortcut_with_different_link_text.mdwn



I'd like the ability to use a shortcut, but declare an explicit link text
rather than using the link text defined on [[/shortcuts]].  For example, if I
create a shortcut protogit pointing to files in the xcb/proto.git gitweb
repository, I don't always want to use the path to the file as the link text;
I would like to src/xcb.xsd, but use the link text "XML Schema for the X
Window System protocol".  --[[JoshTriplett]]

If I understand you correctly, you can use Markdown [your link text](the path or URL) . Using your example:
XML Schema for the X Window System protocol
If I don't understand this, can you give an HTML example? --[[JeremyReed]]


The problem is like that in [[bugs/shortcuts_don't_escape_from_Markdown]]. We would like to use
the shortcuts plugin but add a descriptive text -- in this case [[xcbgit src/xcb.xsd|XML Schema...]]
The file src/xcb.xsd could be any url, and the point of shortcuts is that you get to shorten it.
--Ethan


Some clarifications:
You can always write something like
[XML Schema for the X Window System Protocol](http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb/proto.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=src/xcb.xsd)
to get XML Schema for the X Window System Protocol.
However, I want to define a [[plugins/shortcut]] to save the typing.  If I
define something like protogit pointing to
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb/proto.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=%s, then
I can write \[[protogit src/xcb.xsd]]; however, I then can't change the
link text to anything other than what the shortcut defines as the link
text. I want to write something like
\[[XML Schema for the X Window System Protocol|protogit src/xcb.xsd]],
just as I would write a wikilink like
\[[the_shortcuts_on_this_wiki|shortcuts]] to get
[[the_shortcuts_on_this_wiki|shortcuts]]. (The order you suggest, with the
preprocessor directive first, seems quite confusing since wikilinks work
the other way around.) --[[JoshTriplett]]


How about [[xcbgit XML_Schema|src/xcb.xsd]]. That's the same way round
as a wikilink, if you look at it the right way. The syntax Josh suggests
is not currently possible in ikiwiki.
However.. [[Short_wikilinks]] has some similar objectives in a way, and
over there a similar syntax to what Josh proposes was suggested. So maybe
I should modify how ikiwiki preprocessors work to make it doable.
Although, I seem to have come up with a clear alternative syntax over
there. --[[Joey]]