Hi Mark,
Of course workarounds are what all of us find ways to do... but the
use-case of pasting in existing text (that I did not write), and having all
the linkables just "light up" is more important to my purposes than the
risk of false positives. So rather than make strange-looking titles and
rework pasted text to point to those titles, an escape character would be a
somewhat better solution, for this kind of use. (In the meantime, if I do
want to define "will" on a freelinks wiki, I'll tolerate the spurious
links.)
As for the aliases issue, I just posted on that too. uni-link is great for
some use-cases, but not for pasting in existing text. I'm already eager to
have freelinks pick up on aliases. But that's a somewhat different issue
from the false-positives issue here.
Best regards,
-Springer
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 2:20:59 PM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote:
>
> 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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