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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]]