please consider adding some pre-defined table style classes

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / Short_wikilinks.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn b/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn
index ac03cf11c8e7373073230d8d27afa4c68ff25a9c..b9aec91123652a7cad007f49908b5cfaa76e7f56 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Short_wikilinks.mdwn
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ Other alternatives would be
 > I agree that a plugin would probably be more cumbersome, but it is very
 > doable. It might look something like this:
 
-       \[[link bar]]
+       \[[!link bar]]
 
-       \[[link bar=VeryLongPageName]]
+       \[[!link bar=VeryLongPageName]]
 
 >> This is, however, still missing specifying the link text, and adding that option would seem to me to complicate the plugin syntax a lot, unless support is added for the |-syntax for specifying a particular parameter to every plugin.
 
@@ -74,17 +74,30 @@ Other alternatives would be
 >> ... Returning to this, the syntax infact wouldn't be so bad with the |-syntax, given a short name for the plugin:
 
        [[whatever|ref 1]]
-       \[[ref 1=page_with_long_name]]
+       \[[!ref 1=page_with_long_name]]
 
 >>> A way to do this that doesn't need hacking at the preprocessor syntax
 >>> follows: --[[Joey]]
 
-       \[[link bar=1]]
-       \[[dest 1=page_with_long_name]]
+       \[[!link bar=1]]
+       \[[!dest 1=page_with_long_name]]
 
->>>> But this doesn't work so well for links that aren't valid keys. Such as stuff with spaces in it. I'd like to be able to write any kind of links conveniently, not just something that looks like a wikilink.
+>>>> But this doesn't work so well for links that aren't valid keys. Such
+>>>> as stuff with spaces in it. I'd like to be able to write any kind of
+>>>> links conveniently, not just something that looks like a wikilink.
 
->> It also shouldn't be difficult to support non-wiki links in this same way, so that you could still link everywhere in an uniform manner, as the (still preferred by me) HTML processing approach would provide. Perhaps a plugin call wouldn't even be necessary for the links themselves: what about aliases for the normal link mechanism? Although the 'ref' call may infact be cleaner, and adding that |-syntax for plugins could offer other possibilities for other plugins.
+>>>>> You're right, and to fix that it could be turned around: --[[Joey]]
+
+       \[[!link 1=bar]]
+       \[[!dest 1=page_with_long_name]]
+
+>> It also shouldn't be difficult to support non-wiki links in this same
+>> way, so that you could still link everywhere in an uniform manner, as
+>> the (still preferred by me) HTML processing approach would provide.
+>> Perhaps a plugin call wouldn't even be necessary for the links
+>> themselves: what about aliases for the normal link mechanism? Although
+>> the 'ref' call may infact be cleaner, and adding that |-syntax for
+>> plugins could offer other possibilities for other plugins.
 
 >>> I agree, it should be easy to make it support non-wiki links too.
 >>> We seem to have converged at something we can both live with that's