[pmwiki-users] Proposal to change (...) in links to {...} (fwd)
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Aug 26 08:59:47 CDT 2008
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:59:50PM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> > I'd like to propose that we begin migrating to using curly braces
> > instead of parens to suppress parts of links.
>
> It sounds reasonable, but why did you initially select (...)?
Wikipedia was using parens for this purpose in some link formats,
so I co-opted it for PmWiki.
> > Proposal: I'd like to start switching pmwiki to use curly braces (or
> > perhaps some other bracketing character) instead of parens for this,
> > such that the above link would be written as:
>
> I'm not sure how relevant this is, but on a Swedish keyboard {..} are more
> inconvenient. I also don't see {...} as that intuitive, but OTOH I guess
> (...) wasn't either.
It's not all that common, so I'm not too worried about convenience.
And I'm pretty sure that [[WikiPage{s}]] is still more convenient
than [[WikiPages | WikiPage]].
> Some alternatives:
> [[(http://www.)pmichaud.com]] - today
> [[{http://www.}pmichaud.com]] - { ... }
> [[<http://www.>pmichaud.com]] - < ... >
Definitely not angle brackets.
> What other characters are the that are illegal in URIs?
AFAICT there's no longer a definitive set, but PmWiki treats
the following as not being valid in URIs:
< > " { } | \ ^ ` [ ] '
Pm
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