[Pmwiki-users] How To Change Valid Wiki Titles

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Steven Leite wrote:

> Q:  I want to be able to (allow) "&" character in my Wiki Titles.  How do I
> do it?  I think I need to modify one or more of the snippets below:
> 
> $GroupNamePattern="[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]+";
> 
> $WikiWordPattern="[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*(?:[A-Z][a-z0-9]|[a-z0-9][A-Z])[A-Za-z0-9
> ]*";
> 
> $FreeLinkPattern="{{(?>([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*(?:(?:[\\s_]*|-)[A-Za-z0-9]+)*)(
> ?:\\|((?:(?:[\\s_]*|-)[A-Za-z0-9])*))?)}}((?:-?[A-Za-z0-9]+)*)";
> 
> $FragmentPattern="#[A-Za-z][-.:\\w]*";
> 
> $PageTitlePattern="[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*(?:-[A-Za-z0-9]+)*";
> 
> A: ?

I think '&' is one of the more difficult characters to use... (it's used 
to separate arguments in URIs). Could you explain a bit more:
* Why do you want this specific character?
* Some examples of how you'd use it?
* Is it primarily in the title that you want it to appear?

Here is a crude solution, but only for links: Write this:

	[[WikiWord   Wiki & Word]]

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> 
> Q:  I also want to change my file names (and thus, WikiTitles) to allow
> spaces, or rather, use the "_" (underscore) character for the actual
> TitleName and FileName, but display it on the screen as a " " (white-space).
> Is that easy to fix?
> 
> A:  ?

This should be relatively easy, but I don't know how. Try looking at the 
PmWiki-documentation (and the cookboook, and the  FAQ-section).

> 
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> 
> Q:  Is this mailing list available on Google or any other search engine?
> I'm concerned about my email address getting picked up by spam-bots or other
> evil things.
> 
> A:  ?

No :-(

(I'll e-mail Patrick about that separately)

/Christian

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