Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:34:15PM -0500, Stirling Westrup wrote: >> I've often wished for a way to explicitly ask for a particular character >> in a link to be % encoded so that it forms a valid URL. Something like a >> '\' escape might work so that: >> >> [[home/foo#zot]] >> >> is a link to the zot anchor in the foo page of the home group while >> >> [[home/foo\#zot]] >> >> would be a link to the foo#zot page in the home group. > > I have other expectations for the backslash -- most wiki markup > languages are starting to use it to mean "don't process what follows > as markup". So we'd need to use something else -- nothing > immediately comes to my mind, though. >
I feared that the backslash would already be taken. The only other things I can think of are %, so we'd have [[home/foo%#zot]], but that might interfere with styles, or some sort of quote convention using begin-escaped and end-escaped tokens... _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
