Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] WikiLinks extension

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Peter Harley <pjr...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've written a patch that changes the Wikilinks extension to accept piped
> links a la wikipedia, so [[ALink|click here]] will produce a link with the
> text "click here". I'm a bit of a git newbie, so I have a simple patch, but
> I can't figure out how to submit a merge request.
>
> Anyway, just wondering if there was interest in including something like
> this.
>

Seeing that Markdown already has a simple syntax for creating labels
for links, I'm not sure this offers any value. And, if something of
the sort was added, I would think it should use the already
established syntax of markdown. So perhaps: ``[[ALink]](click here)``.
But you might as well just do ``[/ALink](click here)`` with the
existing non-wikilink syntax.

So no, I'm not interested. Of course, anyone can use there own
extensions which define their own syntax. Perhaps you could publish it
somewhere and add a link on the wiki [1] for others to find and use if
they so choose. If it turns out to be popular, we could always add it
later.

[1]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Available_Extensions

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