[Pmwiki-users] Re: New link markup -- using [[...]] or ((...))

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Mon Jun 14 07:26:32 CDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:01:05PM +1000, Nathan Jones wrote:
> Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> >Robin wrote:
> >> config.php option '$UseParenthesisLinks=1' turns all the [[...]] markup into 
> >> ((...)), and could be turned on depending on the general demographic of the 
> >> wiki.
> >
> >Hmm... I'm not sure that's such a good idea. Imagnine the confusion on 
> >this list if people as for help and are using a different markup style for 
> >something as basic as this...
> 
> So, the next question is: "should both ((...)) and [[...]] be enabled by
> default?" Is it too confusing to say that both forms can be used?

I think that using ((...)) instead of [[...]] is pretty much a non-starter
for me--too many other wikis and systems use the brackets to indicate links.
Plus, I think that brackets more correctly indicate links in the sense of
"reference to another source".  So, unlike the directive markup, I'm
pretty firmly committed to using double-brackets for the primary link
syntax.

However, it's no problem for someone to enable the use of ((...)) for 
links--in version 2.0 the code to do this is:

    $MarkupPatterns[2000]['/\\(\\((.*?)\\)\\)/'] = '[[$1]]';

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