Oliver Betz wrote:
Petko Yotov wrote:
[...]
I also consider a feature being able to write [[(Pm )wiki]], [[(Wiki )styles]]
and [[(Wiki )trails]] when I link to PmWiki, WikiStyles or WikiTrails - it is
easier than [[WikiTrails|trails]].
I disagree regarding this feature. It's IMO hard to find and
understand for beginners, it saves only little typing and I can't
search link targets in the page source anymore.
I tend to agree - however, this is NOT anything to do with my suggestion.
Actually on average I am suggesting that we change [[WikiStyles]] to
[[Wiki styles]] (actually I don't care which direction, I just suggest
we be consistent) which actually means he is arguing in favour of what I
am saying, but it just shows how stubborn some folks are around here, if
it sounds like a change they want to argue against it without even fully
evaluating the merits
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 can still enable camel case, but I guess before long you are going
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?
When I tried to explore the PmWiki documentation a long time ago, I
found many links written inconsistently making searching and
maintenance harder than necessary.
Wahoo. Please write back to Petko and explain that you disagree that
this "feature" is useful.
I agree entirely that consistent use of wording, especially with regards
to core features, is essential, otherwise you confuse the reader eg is
"WikiStyles" a special feature and "Wiki styles" are ways of styling the
whole website?
This all started because I asked for a poll on which was felt to be more
consistent with a view to running that through the whole docs... (I can
see arguments either way). Oh well
Ed W
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