more detailed explaination of an old behavior

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chrysn 2013-08-11 08:32:09 -04:00 committed by admin
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@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ I would like to be able to create links with underscores. I realize this is a fe
> i assume that this behavior stems from times when wikilinks and [[ikiwiki/directive]]s were not distinguished by \[[ vs \[[! but by the use of whitespace in directives, so whitespace had to be avoided in wikilinks.
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> --[[chrysn]]
> having hacked around in the [[plugins/link]] plugin, i can confirm that the link texts are explicitly de-escaped, and that when no pipe is inside the link (ie links like `\[[cmd_test]]`), the string `"cmd_test"` is regarded as a link (that will subsequently be converted to a readable text) rather than as a readable text (for which a suitable link target is found automatically). --[[chrysn]]