Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/14/06, Netocrat ... wrote:
[>>Steve Bennett wrote:]
IMHO, this kind of linking isn't that great anyawy. We should use proper anchors, as section names change so quickly (much more so than article names, at any rate), and there isn't (afaik) any way of finding out what links exist to a given section.
And it causes unmemorable and long urls that are unsuited to Usenet articles and emails.
For common ones, you can set up redirects to the section heading. That works, thankfully.
That's welcome news: they didn't work the last time that I checked (1.5.x; just confirmed on 1.5.6), but I see that they do on a 1.6.5 install.
=== <span id="shortid">[[#shortid|1.1]]</span> Heading and TOC entry ===
Eep. :)
There are variations that avoid extras in the heading, but short of a core code patch they're also flawed.
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