Steve Bennett wrote:
Never noticed this before. Compare these:
[[foo|]]
[[foo| ]]
Both render as if they were [[foo]], but the first one is replaced by
[[foo|foo]] at savetime, while the second one isn't it. Feature or
bug?
[[foo| ]] doesn't render as [[foo]], at least on wikipedia. It's
rendering as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=edit"
class="new" title="Foo"></a>
So it's trying to render it as a space linking to Foo and somehow the
space is trimmed.
I'm unsure about the correct behaviour. Syntax should be a space link,
but doing that is a bit weird.
I'm a bit skeptical about the need to transform
pipetricks at
savetime. I think a developer once explained it as not wanting third
party users of wikitext to have to know the transformation rules, but
that sounds pretty flimsy to me.
Steve
Agree. I remember some discussions about that pointing out that people
didn't learn about those save-time tricks because they weren't present
on wikitext.