[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Preliminary support for tasks with multiple plan pages

[Raymond Zeitler]

Hi Sacha:

Could an intermediary function be used to convert
PlanPage1|PlanPage2|PlanPage3 to something emacs-wiki-link-at-point can
interpret?  A simple regular expression search / replace ought to do the
trick, no?

I haven't looked at the code, so forgive me if I'm being naive.  As well, I
don't understand why the objective is to create a single link to multiple
plan pages.  What's supposed to happen when you follow it?  Why can't some
function write [[PlanPage1]] [[PlanPage2]] [[PlanPage3]] into the day page?

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Raymond Zeitler <address@hidden>

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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 02:52:31 +0900
From: Sacha Chua <address@hidden>
Subject: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Preliminary support for tasks with
        multiple        plan pages
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"Raymond Zeitler" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm curious, why can't these characters be used to delimit multiple
> plan pages: semi-colon pipe plus sign

emacs-wiki doesn't recognize them as link delimiters, so hitting RET
on the link sometimes doesn't work. Hmm, what's a good way around this?

> Pipe and plus sign have the advantage of being invalid characters
> for use in file names (at least under all the Bill Gates' operating

+ works in URLs, which is why emacs-wiki recognizes it, as well.
| isn't used by emacs-wiki-link-at-point, which screws up TAB and RET
for links. It's emacs-wiki-link-at-point's responsibility to back up
and figure out where the link starts. Perhaps some nice character can
be added to it?

> Also, why do you need to highlight planner"debug.  Shouldn't you instead
> convert that into two separate space-delimited links -- [[planner]]
> [[debug]] -- in the day page?  That's how I imagined it would work.

It should be converted into

[[planner]]"[[debug]], which highlights as planner"debug.

Anything different is probably a bug.