> i updated from Version 1.5.X to 1.9. Big changes in between (at 1.6).
> In the old wiki spaces in links were automatically replaced with '_'. You mean that it replaced spaces in pagenames with _ in the links? > This does not work anymore. Yeah, it was crap. Back then, when that feature was added, I thought it was a good idea (if mediawiki does it, it can't be wrong, right? :) to map blank and underscore to underscore in URLs (and in page names). The problem is that you afterwards don't know any more if it was originally a blank or an underscore, which leads to problems with externally given names (like attachment filenames [solvable, if you rename the attachment or accept another name] or parts of the filesystem made visible via the wiki [this works only with a special hack in moin 1.x, but will be a standard feature of moin2, and this could not be solved with that magic in place]). Thus, we had to revoke that "feature". Current behaviour is that you just get what you have. If your pagename has a blank, you get a blank (escaped to %20 in URLs), if your pagename has an underscore, you get an underscore. No magic, no problems. :) BTW, in the 1.5 -> 1.6 migration there is a step where you can rename pages and files (rename1.txt) - this is mostly for that reason (we can't decide automatically whether you rather want underscores or blanks in the names). So, in short, all magical replacing of some chars by others is gone in current moin, with one small compatibility helper left: If moin processes a request for a URL .../some_page, it will first look, if there is a page called "some_page". If there is none, it will do a second check for "some page". This is to make (old) links from outside not break just because of underscore vs. blank. > Is there any setting to use the old behavior? No, we had to get rid of that troublemaker. BTW, the usage of _ in older moins (< 1.6) was also caused by the bad link markup, you could get into trouble with spaces easily or you were forced to use more complicated link markup if you had a space in the name. After 1.6 this is no issue any more, the new markup can link to [[stuff with spaces]] easily. Also, recent browsers are often not showing the quoted URLs any more, but show the decoded form of them, e.g.: http://.../foo bar < as shown by recent browsers http://.../foo%20bar < as shown by older browsers So the issue of "%20 is ugly" (which was another reason why we initially mapped blank to underscore) is not that much an issue any more. Just be careful when copy&pasting those URLs from browser's URL line to other systems (like email or whatever), so that you get the quoted form of the URL. For Firefox this is right-click into URL line, "select all", "copy". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
