[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: more --signature markup thoughts

Jonathan Scott Duff duff
Tue Feb 10 14:25:25 CST 2004


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:08:09AM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> Leaving aside (for the moment) whether to write Group/{{free link}} or
> {{Group/free link}} ...
> 
> If pmwiki is going to introduce something like ~{{jr}} or ~JohnRankin,
> could we do it in a more general way? As I understand it (bear with
> me, I came to this discussion late) the ~ is a shortcut for writing 
> "Profiles/". 

Actually, it's not. That's just my repeated characterization of it as
seen from the perspective of a naive user. (Or my imagination of how a
naive user would think coupled with how I want things to work ;-)

> So why not generalise this and allow an administrator to 
> specify other group name shortcuts?

I believe that administrators can already define whatever "shortcuts"
they want in local.php

However, some sort of macro facility would be great! :-)

-Scott
-- 
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff at pobox.com



More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list