On 5/12/2009 22:15, Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Mark Stosberg<m...@summersault.com>  wrote:
http://test.darcs.net/_login

John says he's done something in HEAD for this:
Great! Thanks. Here's another specific feedback point.

On the edit screen, it should explain *which* wiki syntax is in use, and
provide some immediate examples and a link to further documentation
about the formatting.

Here's an example wiki page that does this decently well. (It will ask
you sign in first, which merely involves typing in any username that you
make up).

http://www.cgi-app.org/index.cgi?action=edit&page_name=Plugins
...
    Mark

I dunno, that's some pretty darn intrusive informing it does there.
Seems like way overkill. I'm for user-friendliness, but that seems to
go past the line of helping to getting in one's way.

Agreed. For reST, I would probably just link to rst2a.com and the cheat sheet from docutils:

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/cheatsheet.txt

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