[pmwiki-users] Proposal to change (...) in links to {...}

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Mon Aug 25 21:47:46 CDT 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:40:37PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> The primary reason for making this switch is that unlike
> curly braces and brackets, bare parentheses are legal in
> urls.  As a result, people who want to write a url
> containing parentheses (common on Wikipedia) have to write 
> %28 and %29 for parens so that PmWiki doesn't treat them
> as link text suppression markers.
> 
> In this proposal we would not immediately eliminate the
> use of parens to suppress link text -- it would be left
> as an option for now and removed in some future major
> release of PmWiki.
> 
> Any comments on this proposal?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Kathryn Andersen
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