Versions 2.0 and 2.1 of ikiwiki, and I think earlier versions as well,
-allowed wiki links to have spaces in the link text. For example, [[ikiwiki
+allowed wiki links to have spaces in the link text. For example, [[!ikiwiki
logo page|logo]] should create an anchor tag referencing the logo page, and
-[[ikiwiki logo|logo/ikiwiki.png]] should create an image tag referencing
+[[!ikiwiki logo|logo/ikiwiki.png]] should create an image tag referencing
the logo.
As of version 2.2, this no longer works. I think the pattern \\[[...|...]]
> want multiple words.
>
> This was a decision I made a long time ago due to the ambiguity between a
-> WikiLink and a [[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]]. Is "\[[foo bar|baz]]" a wikilink to
+> WikiLink and a [[ikiwiki/Directive]]. Is "\[[foo bar|baz]]" a wikilink to
> baz with a link text of "foo bar", or an instance of preprocessor
> directive "foo" with a parameter of "bar|baz"? If it's interpreted as a
> wikilink today, that could change tomorrow if a new preprocessor directive
> to a bug, so I current have no plans to bring the old behavior back.
> --[[Joey]]
+>> I agree that the grammar should be unambiguous. It seems to me that the
+>> problem with spaces-in-wikilinks is caused by overloading the wikilink
+>> and preprocessor syntax to use the same symbols. If they didn't (and is
+>> there much advantage in them using the same symbols? I know in some
+>> cases you have something which is a wikilink and a preprocessor directive,
+>> but how often?) there'd be no problem with spaces.
+>>
+>> If there was ever a future, syntax-breaking major release of ikiwiki
+>> (similar to python3000) I'd like to see this fixed as part of that.
+>> --[[users/Jon]]
+
+>>> You can enable `prefix_directives` and get the disambiguated behavior
+>>> and spaces in wikilinks today. It will become the default in 3.0.
+>>> --[[Joey]]
+
[[done]]