[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: rationale for changing # to %23 in the textual description in emacs-wiki-make-link

[Stefan Reichör]

Hi Michael!

> Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In planner-psvn.el I use '#' to describe the revision number, like
>> "projectA#236". Which means projectA at revision 236
>>
>> With the actual emacs wiki, the '#' is replaced by "%23".
>>
>> What is the reason for that change?
>
> The behavior has been this way since last year.  I guess there isn't
> much point to escaping '#' in links, so I've removed this behavior.
> "%23" will still be unescaped to "#" for compatibility's sake.
>
> 2005-09-25 01:31:22 GMT       Michael Olson <address@hidden>  patch-137
>
>     Summary:
>       Fix '#' in link descriptions.
>     Revision:
>       emacs-wiki--main--1.0--patch-137
>
>     * emacs-wiki.el (emacs-wiki-link-escape): Don't escape '#' if we are
>       given a link description.  Thanks to Stefan Reichör for the report.
>       (emacs-wiki-link-unescape): Update documentation.
>
>     modified files:
>      ChangeLog emacs-wiki.el

That attempt only partly fixes the problem.
emacs-wiki-link-escape and emacs-wiki-link-unescape refer to a
variable called "further", your patch renamed further to is-desc.
So now the undefined variable "further" is referenced.


Stefan.