> I agree that a plugin would probably be more cumbersome, but it is very
> doable. It might look something like this:
- \[[link bar]]
+ \[[!link bar]]
- \[[link bar=VeryLongPageName]]
+ \[[!link bar=VeryLongPageName]]
>> This is, however, still missing specifying the link text, and adding that option would seem to me to complicate the plugin syntax a lot, unless support is added for the |-syntax for specifying a particular parameter to every plugin.
>> ... Returning to this, the syntax infact wouldn't be so bad with the |-syntax, given a short name for the plugin:
[[whatever|ref 1]]
- \[[ref 1=page_with_long_name]]
+ \[[!ref 1=page_with_long_name]]
>>> A way to do this that doesn't need hacking at the preprocessor syntax
>>> follows: --[[Joey]]
- \[[link bar=1]]
- \[[dest 1=page_with_long_name]]
+ \[[!link bar=1]]
+ \[[!dest 1=page_with_long_name]]
->> It also shouldn't be difficult to support non-wiki links in this same way, so that you could still link everywhere in an uniform manner, as the (still preferred by me) HTML processing approach would provide. Perhaps a plugin call wouldn't even be necessary for the links themselves: what about aliases for the normal link mechanism? Although the 'ref' call may infact be cleaner, and adding that |-syntax for plugins could offer other possibilities for other plugins.
+>>>> But this doesn't work so well for links that aren't valid keys. Such
+>>>> as stuff with spaces in it. I'd like to be able to write any kind of
+>>>> links conveniently, not just something that looks like a wikilink.
+
+>>>>> You're right, and to fix that it could be turned around: --[[Joey]]
+
+ \[[!link 1=bar]]
+ \[[!dest 1=page_with_long_name]]
+
+>> It also shouldn't be difficult to support non-wiki links in this same
+>> way, so that you could still link everywhere in an uniform manner, as
+>> the (still preferred by me) HTML processing approach would provide.
+>> Perhaps a plugin call wouldn't even be necessary for the links
+>> themselves: what about aliases for the normal link mechanism? Although
+>> the 'ref' call may infact be cleaner, and adding that |-syntax for
+>> plugins could offer other possibilities for other plugins.
>>> I agree, it should be easy to make it support non-wiki links too.
>>> We seem to have converged at something we can both live with that's