[Pmwiki-users] Re: ... Re: more --signature markup thoughts
Christian Ridderström
chr
Tue Feb 10 19:28:52 CST 2004
On 11 Feb 2004, John Rankin wrote:
> But what about:
>
> *JohnRankin
>
> And you implicitly answer this below...
> >
> >Or how about for a more general markup with shortcuts:
> >
> > shortcut-link ::= '{{' shortcut-char ('/' | '.') link-text '}}'
>
> Extending it a bit more:
>
> shortcut-link ::= shortcut-char ( '/' | '.' ) ( WikiWord | FreeLink )
>
> and the following (start of line) should be unambiguous:
>
> **/JohnRankin
>
> is a bullet followed by a shortcut. I like it!
Why isn't this a nested item that starts with the text '/JohnRankin'?
With that kind of markup the user has to remember precedence.
> >where if you go with '{{~.JR}}' you'll see 'Profiles.JR' and if you go
> >with '{{~/JR}}' you'll see 'JR'? ('~' is the shortcut for
> >'Profiles')
>
> Or ~/{{jr}} and ~.{{jr}} presumably.
My idea was to use {{*/jr}} to avoid ambiguity, i.e. if it's inside the
curly braces it must be a shortcut.
> And I *think* you can do {{Group/free link}} as a local customisation:
That's funny... Patrick is testing {{Group/free link}} at pmichaud.com as
we "speak" :-) It even works with international characters!
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Christian/SandBox
(unfortunately pmwiki-mode doesn't :-(, so that's something I need to fix)
/Christian
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