Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Freak links
Author: Tommy Sundström Posted: 7/27/1999; 1:20:23 PM Topic: Freak links Msg #: 8796 Prev/Next: 8795 / 8797
There is a problem with Frontiers automatic linking mechanism - the one that automaticly links a quoted phrase to a page with the same title, if there is one.When the site grovs - and DG & mainResponder makes it easy to spread responsibility for making new pages - a rising number of freak links occur.
Like on http://docserver.userland.com/tcp/sendMail where the phrase "Let's Have Fun!" in Examples tcp.sendMail ("dave@userland.com", "Hello!", "Let's Have Fun!") has becomed automaticly linked.
I know there is at least two solutions for this.
- Escaping the quotes by putting a backslash before them. But if the 'linked to'-page is made after my page, the risk is big that it will be there for quite some time before I discover the freak link. Also, I find it a bit 'Microsoft Word' to be forced to take extra messures so that the automatic helper will not mess up my text.
There is a #directive to shut it of. But I like the ease of it, I would just wish the mechanism to be triggered by something a bit less common than just quoting a phrase.
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