Je Dimanĉo 18 Majo 2003 19:25, rednblack@alum.mit.edu skribis:
Thought this might be a good pipe trick addition, been pining for it for a while:
[[Mexic|o]]an => <a href=/wiki/Mexico>Mexican</a>
There was a feature request like this a while ago, let's see if I can dig it out of the tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=586885&grou...
(If you can't get the URL to work, go to wikipedia.sourceforge.net, click the 'feature requests' link, and scroll down to the link to #586885 "Advanced free linking".)
Basically people decided it would just be too confusing; though your proposal is a bit simpler than what was proposed there. Scroll down to the bottom of the above-linked page for my comments on similar usage.
The particular syntax you suggest is something I would not recommend, as it overloads a legitimate, if rarely useful ;) use of the present markup. That is, "[[Mexic|o]]an" would produce a link that looks like "oan" and links to "Mexic". Making it do the divide-and-conquer trick may be potentially problematic.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)