Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: bug report: emacs-wiki.el -- recognizing extended links

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:22:42 -0500, Michael Olson wrote:
> Could you tell me why you need to have links with spaces in them?
> What is that supposed to link to?  If I can understand why you need
> that functionality, I'll put it back in.

I'm not the original poster, but I'll weigh in anyway, since this has
been a long-time pet peeve of mine with almost every wiki I've ever
seen.

Personally, I want links with spaces because I would like to refer "some
relevant information" using the norms of written English which separates
words with spaces. I'm loath to refer to "SomeRelevantInformation" which
is an illegible aberration of English in my opinion.

If something underneath (say a URL or a buffer name), would prefer not
to have a space in it, then that's an implementation detail that I do
not want to leak up into my text. I also like clean looking URLs, so I
would hope the mapping would be to something like
"some_relevant_information" as opposed to
"some%20relevant%20information" or what have you.

Just my two cents.

-Carl