[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Re: Disabling WikiWords for a page

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-01-12  10:39 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>Hmm... just to be clear. When I said 'links' above, I meant only that I
>wanted certain words to be interpreted as wikiwords (even though they are
>not necessarily in "CamelCase"). A word that is interpreted as a link
>should then always link to a wiki page with that name. For instance, if I
>say that 'SMA' should be interpreted as a wikiword, I want 'SMA' to become
>a link to the wikipage 'SMA'.
>
>Does this make it different from what you want? (I suspect so, but I'd
>like you to verify that you're looking for something more general).

I want the best of both worlds. I was calling them "permanent links" but I 
don't think that is the best nomencalture. I want to be able to declare a 
word and have it rendered as a link whenever it appears. That link might be 
to an external entity as in:
Adobe -> http://www.adobe.com/
or the link might point to an internal page, as in
Neil -> Profiles.NeilHerber

I can achieve an internal link with an external reference since I could 
declare the link like so:
Neil -> http://www.example.com/pathtomy/pmwiki/Profiles.NeilHerber

I can do this now with InterMap links, but they require trailing characters 
behind the "permanent link" word - namely a colon and one non-blank 
character. This is acceptable for me, but totally inexplicable to my users 
who tend to ask things like "Why does this feel like a 1980s word processor?"


Neil

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