Filter Syntax History

[DaveGifford]

@jeremyruston

The story starts with the double square bracket syntax used in wikitext for links. This was already an established usage in wikis. I switched the order of pretty links because I thought Wikipedia’s [[link address|link text]] was the wrong way around because it broke up sentences: The file is [[https://site.com/thing|here]] seems less readable than The file is [[here|https://site.com/thing]]. Obviously now I wish I hadn’t been so big headed, and had just gone with Wikipedia’s established usage.

I agree with @nemo that you were right about this. Wikipedia’s way is maybe more “logical” - you are creating a link, and the alias is the icing on the cake. But TiddlyWiki’s way is more user content-oriented - the sentence first, and the link as the addendum.