It seems to me that freelinks is doing what it's it supposed to do. If it
doesn't work in some
situation, then move on to some other tool.
In the case of "boat" or "will", you could put the title in upper case, to
distinguish it as a special word.
"Whatever sinks your BOAT."
"The WILL of man can not be thwarted by mere mendacity..."
In the case of "will", it does indeed seem that the number of
false-positives will be higher than the intended use.
Also, you're going to need the plural, possessive, and capitalized versions:
"The many wills overwhelm the few."
"Will is an essential concept in ..."
"It is the will's way to underestimate the capabilities of others."
So you might want a completely different tool, like PMario's uni-link
plugin.
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 10:45:34 AM UTC-7, springer wrote:
>
> Mat and all,
>
> At first I also didn't understand HC's complaint about unwanted "boat"
> links: freelinks is there to populate the wiki with virtual links; I do
> want precisely for every "boat" reference to link to the tiddler titled
> "boat"...
>
> But... I realized even I could need exceptions: For example, the word
> "will" has a technical definition in Kantian ethics (as in volition, free
> will, etc.). Suppose I want a tiddler for this concept ("will" as a noun),
> and my wiki is full of technical passages that would benefit from having
> this link appear "for free"... Could I take advantage of freelinks while
> keeping this title? That would be crazy *unless* I could manually prevent
> sentences about "what ~will happen later" or from pointing people to this
> tiddler defining "will" as a noun.
>
> (Maybe this example isn't great because the exceptions might outnumber the
> positive cases, but you get the idea...)
>
> -Springer
>
> On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 6:24:45 PM UTC-4, Mat wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand the complaint: The *purpose* with the tool is to link
>> title mentions -- so how can anyone complain about that it does exactly
>> that? And if this purpose aligns with your needs then, yeah, occasionally
>> you might still not want the automatic linking, just like you occasionally
>> don't want automatic CamelCase linking, so it makes sense to be able to
>> disable it locally and the obvious approach would be to prefix it with ~
>>
>> <:-)
>>
>
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