I'm in favour of turning it off. Never use it, never will... - Henrik
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > Lately I've been giving serious thought to turning > off all wikiword parsing by default in the core, and > would like feedback. > > Here's the background and history. Prior to version 2.1, > PmWiki had wikiwords enabled in the core by default, > such that any CamelCase word would be automatically > treated as a link to another page. There was an > option to disable wikiword linking, however. > > Starting with version 2.1, we switched the core > default so that wikiwords would not automatically > be treated as links to other pages. Sites that wanted > to have wikiword links enabled simply set > > $LinkWikiWords = 1; > > However, even for sites that don't enable wikiword links, > PmWiki still parses wikiwords in the source markup, and > surrounds them with <span class='wikiword'>...</span> in > the output. This is intended to make it easier for sites > to find older wikiword links that may no longer work > when $LinkWikiWords is turned off. > > Unfortunately, this additional parsing and output step > sometimes interferes with wikiwords that naturally > occur in other instances (e.g., character entities > such as "Æ" or colors such as "#FFFF00"). Since > most site generally don't visually distinguish wikiwords > from surrounding text, it's not at all obvious what is > happening. > > So, I'm thinking that now would be a good time to have > all wikiword parsing disabled by default in the core. > For sites that are still using wikiword links, the > $LinkWikiWords = 1; setting would still enable wikiword > parsing and linking, same as it does now. Sites that > want exactly the current 2.1 behavior, where wikiwords > are parsed and tagged but not linked, would do: > > $LinkWikiWords = 0; > include_once("$FarmD/scripts/wikiwords.php"); > > Defaulting PmWiki to not parsing wikiwords by default > would clean up a number of confusing issues for authors, > as well as potentially reduce the time needed to render > pages (the markup rule used to find/process wikiword > links can be a little slow, and not needed for sites that > aren't doing anything with wikiwords). > > Any comments, either for, against, or otherwise? > > Thanks, > > Pm > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users > > > -- Henrik Bechmann www.osscommons.ca www.bechmannsoftware.com Webmaster, www.dufferinpark.ca _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users