X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/86edd73d169600875a10a635ef8df4a644545b0d..c18b85451625ff5b7ba8940c43f6703cc3b795d3:/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn index f561d5850..cf3b89c76 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink.mdwn @@ -9,9 +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. @@ -23,14 +20,10 @@ 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]]` . -## Directives and WikiLinks - -ikiwiki has two syntaxes for -[[directives|directive]]. The older syntax -used spaces to distinguish between 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. +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.