[pmwiki-users] Proposal to change (...) in links to {...}

Christian Ridderström christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 02:56:49 CDT 2008


On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, kirpi at kirpi.it wrote:

> On Italian keyboards as well:
> you need to press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+"è" to get {
> and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+"+" to get }
>
> Also, I did not personally adopt this markup yet as is complicates
> things for my friends: once they learn that a link is written
> [[target | label]]

I have to agree that I use (...) rather infrequently, so I guess it 
doesn't matter if we use {...} instead of (...).

>>  [[<http://www.>pmichaud.com]]
>
> <...> are used everyday by everybody in email addresses in the
> Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>
> form, where the <...> part is the "target" and the other part is the
> optional "label".

> Can I express my feeling?

Of course .-)

You're probably right, <...> is a bad choice.

/Christian

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