[pmwiki-users] Line breaks in links: Why not allowed?

[Petko Yotov]

On Saturday 01 July 2006 14:27, Tegan Dowling wrote:
> On 7/1/06, Felix E. Klee <felix.klee at inka.de> wrote:
> > Why are line breaks in links not allowed in a page's source?
> >
> > For example
> >
> >   [[A
> >   link]]
> >
> > does not render as a link, while
> >
> >   [[A link]]
> >
> > does.
>
> Typically, a line-break terminates the kind of markup in which text is
> bracketed with some kind of paired symbols, so this behavior is
> consistent with other PmWiki behavior.  What surprises me is that the
> usual workaround for that general rule doesn't work in this case, i.e.
> this also doesn't work:
>
> [[A\\
> Link]]

It should be:

[[A \
Link]]

Greetings,
Petko