Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-12-15 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:13, 0x zero_...@yahoo.com wrote: M$ Office AutoCorrect/AutoFormat leverages Undo for similar functionality: the autolinking/autoformating is added to the undo list as a separate action from the typing, so that you can just type and press Ctrl+Z to supress

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-24 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
0x wrote: I'm finding that I'm spending a lot of time going back and removing GUI-generated links (in Zim) - more time doing that, in fact, than I would manually entering links to begin with. What I would like to have (to do, perhaps) with the Zim GUI is what was suggested regarding a

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-24 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Beni Cherniavsky wrote: ... 8 ... Currently pyzim is close to the second and that's annoying - you have to type the same thing twice to create a link! Let me detail how it is intended to work in the current implementation: if the target and label already differ than the target will stay fixed

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-23 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
I think it should be a switch - a button on the toolbar that toggles the functionality on and off like the read-only toggle. There should be a keystroke for it, too, of course. Sorry, not following. Toggle which functionality? Autolinking on/off? Editing changes link/label? Something

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-23 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 13:26, Beni Cherniavsky c...@users.sf.net wrote: 0x zero_...@yahoo.com wrote: In addition to those points, I will add that in most cases the link generation in Zim is find - I like being able to type e.g. Glossary:TCP and get a link that - when I click it will

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-22 Thread 0x0000
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Beni Cherniavsky c...@users.sf.net wrote: From: Beni Cherniavsky c...@users.sf.net Subject: Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links To: Pedro pedro...@gmail.com Cc: Zim zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 11:31 PM On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 20:44

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
I think it should be a switch - a button on the toolbar that toggles the functionality on and off like the read-only toggle.   There should be a keystroke for it, too, of course. This ssounds like the best solution. I personally would prefer that there be no label for links: URLs are typed

Re: [Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-16 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 20:44, Pedro pedro...@gmail.com wrote: DokuWiki for example has both options: [[Link Target]] simple link [[Link Target|Click here]] link with a label This is jsut a possibility, since zim comes with a a GUI rather than being markup-centered, all the links

[Zim-wiki] 1:1 vs. piped links

2009-11-15 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
I started to comment to pyzim bug 304605https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/304605but I think it warrants a wider discussion. The bug refers to a specific situation: editing an existing link text modifies the target, thus breaking the link. But it reflects a wider usability/discoverability issue: