[pmwiki-users] Flagging Bare Wikiwords . . .

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

Going through old threads... this is about finding/detecting/fixing 
WikiWords that might have been links in an old wiki installation, but 
since an upgrade to using only [[link]], they no longer do what they used 
to do. 

I think the eventual solutition became that wiki words to existing pages 
got their own <span>??

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:20:45AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:46:20PM -0600, Ben Wilson wrote:
> > > I would ask one of two solutions. Either assign WikiLink() to a variable 
> > > (e.g. $WikiLink) so we may override more painlessly, or sneak a span 
> > > into WikiLink() as I have done that will allow me to flag the link.
> > 
> > How about a third solution...?  In a local customization file:
> > 
> >     Markup('wikilink', '>urllink',
> >       "/\\b($GroupPattern([\\/.]))?($WikiWordPattern)/e",
> >       "Keep('<span class=\\'missingLink\\'>$0</span>', 'L')");
> 
> Actually, a fourth solution, which I'm likely to adopt into the
> core distribution, is:
> 
>      Markup('wikilink', '>urllink',
>        "/\\b($GroupPattern([\\/.]))?($WikiWordPattern)/e",
>        "Keep('<span class=\\'wikiword\\'>'
>           . WikiLink(\$pagename,'$0') . '</span>', 'L')");
> 
> Then wikiword links can be styled separately from other page links.
> In particular, the following CSS settings can be made:
> 
>     span.wikiword a.createlink { display:none; }
>     span.wikiword a.createlinktext { text-decoration:none; 
>       border-bottom:none; color:inherit; }
> 
> which will cause WikiWord links to existing pages to continue to
> display as links, while WikiWords to non-existent pages would display
> as normal text (but would still be clickable links to create the page).
> 
> Additional CSS could be used to make WikiWord links to existing pages
> stand out, while still remaining links:
> 
>     span.wikiword a.wikilink { background-color: pink; }


Pm also wrote later on:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:46:18PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> Now it just needs to be combined with something that allows
> you to get a list of the pages where you have this problem (so that you
> manually can go and fix it).

Regarding finding pages that contain pages with with WikiLinks that don't 
go anywhere, Pm later also wrote:

	I'm thinking a custom filter for (:pagelist:) might do the trick.
	It'd be slow, but you'd only have to run it once.

This bit about using (:pagelist:) for finding the bare wiki words, should 
I add it to PITS so we don't forget about it for all future?

/Christian

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