Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: backlinks?

[Jim Ottaway]

>>>>> zedek  <address@hidden> writes:

>> Richard Klinda <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Hello, is there functionality in muse that gives back a list of
>>> links that link a specific page?
>> 
>> Yes, I believe Jim Ottaway made an add-on module for this.  I'll
>> probably be merging it into muse--main soon, since it seems to be a
>> popular feature, if that's OK with Jim.

> I have tried it thanks to some recommendations but here it did not do
> anything.

> How is it supposed to work exactly ?

For some reason, I find it hard to explain, but I will try:

Suppose you are editing a page called, say, 'index' and you create a
link to a new page [i.e., one that doesn't already exist].

When you follow the link, the newly created page has a link at the top
that points back to the original page.  It looks like this:

backlinks: /index

Any backlinks in the parent page are inherited.  So, if the new page
you created in the example above was called 'foo', and you were to
create a link to a new page in it, it would have this backlink line:

backlinks: /index/foo

Thus, you can create a sort of hierarchical structure of pages.

I can see that this might be a fairly murky and unhelpful explanation.
I think there must be a better account somewhere in the archives, when
someone made the original implementation in emacs-wiki.

Regards,
-- 
Jim Ottaway