Currently, [[shortcuts]] must have the `url` parameter, and can optionally have the `desc` parameter. If the `shortcut` directive instead required at least one of `url` or `desc`, then shortcuts could just supply a description without an URL. Since desc can contain arbitrary wiki markup, this would allow shortcuts with multiple links, such as the mmlist shortcut proposed on [[simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut]], or a comprehensive Debian package shortcut which linked to the package page and parenthetically to the BTS and PTS. --[[JoshTriplett]] It sounds like you're looking for templates, not shortcuts. --[[Joey]] > Perhaps true (see my issues with template syntax on > [[todo/shortcut_optional_parameters]]), but allowing a `shortcut` without an > `url` still seems reasonable, and simple. You could also use such shortcuts > without markup at all, as an abbreviation mechanism: > > \[[!shortcut name=spi desc="Software in the Public Interest, Inc."]]]. > \[[!shortcut name=sosp desc="Symposium on Operating System Principles"]]]. > \[[!shortcut name=cacm desc="Communications of the ACM"]]]. > > --[[JoshTriplett]]