[pmwiki-users] Fixing the documentation
Oliver Betz
list_ob at gmx.net
Mon Jul 13 14:28:48 CDT 2009
Ed W wrote:
[...]
>> I also dislike the feature that [[wiki sandbox]] links to
>> [[WikiSandbox]] because it "obfuscates" links in the page source and
>> people use it inconsistently.
>
>Sadly PmWiki is heading away from what you desire then... The latest
>builds have moved down the path towards [[wiki sandbox]] becoming the
>default way to write links and the camel case is going away...
you mix up the technical feature with the writing stile. I've been
writing about the technical feature.
I don't advocate CamelCase, but [[something|wiki sandbox]].
>You can still enable camel case, but I guess before long you are going
No, never. There are too many CamelCase (like) words not being links.
>to be in my position arguing with a bunch of idiots over something like
>there being like a few TypoS LikE ThiS and people will want to refuse to
>fix the typos (!! gah!) because it doesn't affect the way THEY have
>their wiki setup...
>
>> Well, with the PmWiki search you can use link=WikiSandbox, but
>> consider a Cookbook page accessed by a wiki link from the Cookbook
>> group and by an interwiki link in the PmWiki group. There is no single
>> search expression finding all references to this page.
>>
>
>I *think* most of the link searching is optimised based on the hidden
>link attributes in the page file. Depending on how you look at this it
>either means it's outside of the scope of PmWikis current search to find
>both OR that you have a common point to ammend the code and achieve what
>you need? I haven't really studied the code here though... Anyway, I
>think this is OT?
read again: I know that links are stored separately, but if you want
to look also for interwiki links to Cookbook, this doesn't help.
Oliver
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