X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/1b03a06c8c0dbf59469ff30d09a0c9c3051e0b00..fe0cdbef6c51d70e369ff1911e47a6fc883ca9eb:/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn index debbe7305..cf3b89c76 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]] WikiLinks provide easy linking between pages of the wiki. To create a [[WikiLink]], just put the name of the page to link to in double brackets. For example `\[[WikiLink]]`. @@ -8,9 +9,6 @@ wikilink, just prefix it with a `\`, like `\\[[WikiLink]]`. There are some special [[SubPage/LinkingRules]] that come into play when linking between [[SubPages|SubPage]]. -Also, if the file linked to by a WikiLink looks like an image, it will -be displayed inline on the page. - WikiLinks are matched with page names in a case-insensitive manner, so you don't need to worry about getting the case the same, and can capitalise links at the start of a sentence, and so on. @@ -20,16 +18,12 @@ name as the link text. For example `\[[foo_bar|SandBox]]` links to the SandBox page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]]. To link to an anchor inside a page, you can use something like -`\[[WikiLink#foo]]` - -## Preprocessor directives and wikilinks - -ikiwiki has two syntaxes for -[[preprocessor_directives|PreprocessorDirective]]. The older syntax -used spaces to distinguish between preprocessor directives and -wikilinks; as a result, with that syntax in use, you cannot use spaces -in WikiLinks, and must replace spaces with underscores. The newer -syntax, enabled with the `prefix_directives` option in an ikiwiki -setup file, prefixes directives with `!`, and thus does not prevent -links with spaces. Future versions of ikiwiki will turn this option -on by default. \ No newline at end of file +`\[[WikiLink#foo]]` . + +If the file linked to by a WikiLink looks like an image, it will +be displayed inline on the page. + +--- + +You can also put an url in a WikiLink, to link to an external page. +Email addresses can also be used to generate a mailto link.