[Pmwiki-users] Re: PmWiki 2.0 directive syntax
John Rankin
john.rankin
Wed Jun 16 15:29:53 CDT 2004
On Wednesday, 16 June 2004 7:59 PM, Christian Ridderstr?m <chr at home.se> wrote:
>On 16 Jun 2004, John Rankin wrote:
>
>> I added
>>
>> /.directive params./
>>
>> but I'm not sure if this is as easy to type on non-English
>> keyboards as I think it is. On my keyboard, the keys are
>> adjacent and no shift or other action is needed.
>
>On my Swedish keyboard it's on par with [[ which suffers because you need
>to use AltGr. For '/.' the '/' is on Shift-7, whereas '.' is down to
>right, and the keys are almost as far apart as they can be (which is bad
>when you are using the same hand for both symbols).
>
>IIRC, it's in general faster if you can alternate hands when typing,
>because then the other hand starts preparing during the motion of the
>first hand.
>
>Oh, wait... I shouldn't compare this to '[[' but to '[:'.. well, it's much
>easier to type compared to '[:'. The latter combines the drawbacks off '['
>(needs AltGr) and '/.' (same hand, two very different
>locations).
>
>/Christian
So /.directive params./ is better than [:directive params:] and a
less unacceptable option is {{directive params}} because it uses
repeating characters.
>
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