On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM, William Allen Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > It's hard to document ("subst" doesn't seem to translate well or mean > anything to many folks), harder to remember, and hardest to type: > > {{subst:TEMPLATE|P1|P2|subst=subst:}} > > I'm often forgetting that final parameter, and conscientiously have to edit > again. Others don't bother subst'ing at all! > > Is there a solution proposed anywhere already?
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2777 It seems like this exists in an extension. I don't know whether the extension is good enough to enable on Wikimedia and/or just add to core; I haven't looked at it. > If not, here's my rough idea: > > Leading {{:: -- easy to type (already holding the shift key) -- same as > {{subst: -- only happens in edit parsing, no change to database. > > Leading {{## -- easy to type (already holding the shift key) -- obviously > must be different than {{:: -- used inside templates, tells the edit > parsing to "subst:" only subst'ing, otherwise ignored and treated as > concatenation. Same as C pre-processing operator. I think an actual keyword like "substall" is better. It's possible to Google the term to find documentation. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
