X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7960031135e74f6d36abc4294dbadb687117222c..74d844357386b5344d747393914c42caebec8b59:/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn?ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn
index 38df00f86..debbe7305 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ 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]]`
 
-**Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks**. Replace spaces with
-underscores. The presence of spaces is used to distinguish between a
-[[PreprocessorDirective]] and a WikiLink.
+## 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