I know this has been discussed before, but why don't we follow twitter's standard? All words with @ are for people/users and # for actual tags. I don't know if this unnecessary complicates things, but it might be useful to many users. The developer(s) can only change the actual @ with # , and this "user/contact management" (using @) can be created as an external plugin, ie, not forcing everyone to use it, since Zim is designed as a personal organizer.
Just brainstorming. Marco Cevoli Technical translator. Graphic designer. Joiner-of-dots. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Jaap Karssenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Güven, Ugur Murat > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >Colin:[… ]Ugur Murat wants it and has done coding in related areas so >> > I've been hoping they might do it someday. […] >> >> I was thinking of having the @ sign for general tags, and the # sign for >> people tags, as I’m using tags heavily, also >> for tasks to assign to people. >> >> What I could imagine is to have the tags symbol to be a setting in >> preferences, but changing the tag symbol is not that >> easy, as far as I can see. > > > This is a bad idea design wise. The wiki syntax parsing should not depend on > preferences. Data format should be stable. > >> >Paul:Each time I paste into Zim a string containing @, it handles that >> > string as a tag. >> >> Currently I can see only a workaround, replacing the @ sign by anything >> else, when you copy paste your text. > > Replacing is indeed a work around. Real solution would be to handle the > copy-paste such that you get the wanted result. E.g. use the "@", but escape > it such that it is not formatted as tag, or a "paste-as-verbatim" function. > > But first need to understand the way Paul is using these strings to judge > best direction. > > Regards, > > Jaap > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
