Hello Devon;
Put it where you look for it -- a genius principle.
The immutable pages seem to be ones that the PTB's (or was it PHB's? I
often get them confused.) set up so that their words don't get mangled.
Setting up a page consisting of just a pointer to that page, with
keywords as desired seems a good workaround, except perhaps for the
possibility of linkrot should thos target pages be moved.
Devon McCormick wrote:
Hi Randy -
yes, the page is the one you've already seen but now it's a little easier to
find - at least for me, since I added the keywords I'd thought of when I was
searching for this topic in the first place. My idea is that if you pretend
you don't already know it's there, try searching for code to help you wrap
text to see if you can now find it easily. I listed keywords that seem
obvious to me but may not be to others. So, if you search for it using
words that occur to you, you'll either find it easily, or you won't. If you
don't find it easily, you could add the search phrases that seemed natural
to you when you were looking for it.
I'm unsure of the meaning of your second paragraph below: obviously I,
personally, know how to edit a wiki page. However, if you mean the generic
"you", meaning "if one did not know how to edit the J wiki", I'd say that
this is something one should learn to make better use of the resource,
including adding one's own keywords. As I mentioned to Skip, I don't think
this is a very high barrier.
However, this does bring up the point I also mentioned in my last reply to
Skip: there are immutable pages in which the keyword pragma is hidden - it
can only be seen in edit mode as far as I know.
In any case, this keyword idea is a good, simple, partial, short-term
solution. Now all we need to do is make sure it's well-known. I've added
it to my own "Wiki tips" page. I find this page helpful just for my own
reference to help me recall little "gotchas" I've encountered and overcome
but use infrequently enough that I might forget them.
Regards,
Devon
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