1 In [[ikiwiki/markdown]] syntax, none of the other special characters get processed
2 inside a code block. However, in ikiwiki, [[wiki_links|ikiwiki/wikilink]] and
3 [[preprocessor_directives|ikiwiki/directive]] still get processed
4 inside a code block, requiring additional escaping. For example, `[links
5 don't work](#here)`, but `a [[ikiwiki/wikilink]] becomes HTML`. --[[JoshTriplett]]
7 Indented lines provide a good way to escape a block of text containing
8 markdown syntax, but ikiwiki links like \[[this]] are still
9 interpreted within such a block. I think that intepretation should not
10 be happening. That is I should be able to write:
14 and have it render like:
22 > Has there been any progress or ideas on this bug recently? I use an
23 > expanded CamelCase regexp, and without much escaping in freelink text, or
24 > url links, or in codeblocks I get IkiWiki's attempt at creating a "link
27 > I have no ideas other than perhaps once IkiWiki encounters \[\[ or the
28 > position is reset with a backreference from a CamelCased word, further
29 > processing of wikilinks is disabled until the position is reset and a "no
30 > not makelinks" flag or variable is cleared.
32 > I've come up with some _really_ ugly workarounds to handle case specific
33 > stuff like codeblocks but the problem creeps up again and again in
34 > unexpected places. I'd be happy to come up with a patch if anyone has a
35 > bright idea on a nice clean way (_in theroy_) to fix this. I'm out of ideas.
39 > I've moved the above comment here because it seems to be talking about
40 > this bug, not the similar Smileys bug.
42 > In the case of either bug, no, I don't have an idea of a solution yet.
45 > I've now solved a similar bug involving the smiley plugin. The code used
46 > there should give some strong hints how to fix this bug, though I haven't
47 > tried to apply the method yet. --[[Joey]]
49 >> As far, as I can see, smileys bug is solved by checking for code/pre. In
50 >> this case, however, this is not applicable. WikiLinks/directives *should* be
51 >> expanded before passing text to formatter, as their expansion may contain
52 >> markup. Directives should be processed before, as they may provide *partial*
53 >> markup (eg `template` ones), that have no sense except when in the page
54 >> cotext. Links should be processed before, because, at least multimarkdown may
55 >> try to expand them as anchor-links.
57 >> For now, my partial solution is to restrict links to not have space at the
58 >> start, this way in many cases escaping in code may be done in natural way
59 >> and not break copypastability. For example, shell 'if \[[ condition ]];'
60 >> will work fine with this.
62 >> Maybe directives can also be restricted to only be allowed on the line by
63 >> themselves (not separated by blank lines, however) or something similar.