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diff --git a/doc/bugs/wiki_links_still_processed_inside_code_blocks.mdwn b/doc/bugs/wiki_links_still_processed_inside_code_blocks.mdwn
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--- a/doc/bugs/wiki_links_still_processed_inside_code_blocks.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/wiki_links_still_processed_inside_code_blocks.mdwn
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-In [[markdown]] syntax, none of the other special characters get processed
-inside a code block.  However, in ikiwiki, [[wiki links|wikilink]] and
-[[preprocessor directives|preprocessordirective]] still get processed
+In [[ikiwiki/markdown]] syntax, none of the other special characters get processed
+inside a code block.  However, in ikiwiki, [[wiki_links|ikiwiki/wikilink]] and
+[[preprocessor_directives|ikiwiki/directive]] still get processed
 inside a code block, requiring additional escaping.  For example, `[links
-don't work](#here)`, but `a [[wikilink]] becomes HTML`. --[[JoshTriplett]]
+don't work](#here)`, but `a [[ikiwiki/wikilink]] becomes HTML`. --[[JoshTriplett]]
 
 Indented lines provide a good way to escape a block of text containing
 markdown syntax, but ikiwiki links like \[[this]] are still
@@ -41,3 +41,27 @@ and have it render like:
 > 
 > In the case of either bug, no, I don't have an idea of a solution yet.
 > --[[Joey]]
+
+> I've now solved a similar bug involving the smiley plugin. The code used
+> there should give some strong hints how to fix this bug, though I haven't
+> tried to apply the method yet. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> As far, as I can see, smileys bug is solved by checking for code/pre. In
+>> this case, however, this is not applicable. WikiLinks/directives *should* be
+>> expanded before passing text to formatter, as their expansion may contain
+>> markup. Directives should be processed before, as they may provide *partial*
+>> markup (eg `template` ones), that have no sense except when in the page
+>> cotext. Links should be processed before, because, at least multimarkdown may
+>> try to expand them as anchor-links.
+>>
+>> For now, my partial solution is to restrict links to not have space at the
+>> start, this way in many cases escaping in code may be done in natural way
+>> and not break copypastability. For example, shell 'if \[[ condition ]];'
+>> will work fine with this.
+>>
+>> Maybe directives can also be restricted to only be allowed on the line by
+>> themselves (not separated by blank lines, however) or something similar.
+>>
+>> --[[isbear]]
+
+[[!debbug 487397]]