Main logic is that "#" is also used for anchors in HTML links. So reserved "#" for links and decided on "@" since this is used for tags in applications predating twitter.
Regards, Jaap On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Marco Cevoli <marco.cev...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Güven, Ugur Murat > > <murat.gue...@ts.fujitsu.com> 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 : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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