@hellekin wrote:
Today I was looking for a way to link to a post in the same topic.
The
icon, when clicked, shows
post #4, so I tried: using#4andpost#4, only to get frustrated, but discovering that the # character pops up categories to link (which I read about extensively since, in meta.)Now, I find this quite inconsistent, and would like to propose ways to consistently address internal links that matches the actual URL format, or already used patterns...
Generic Patterns
Using colon as a prefix or separator would be nice, but it already autocompletes to emoticons and that could become messy. But consider:
:4,:10:4, and3:10:4(with optional colon prefix) to link to post number 4 in the current topic, post number 4 in topic 10, and post number 4 in topic 10 of category 3.Using
/instead might work, but then it should match the URL, e.g.,/c/3,/t/10, and/t/10/4.The "quote reply" to a post uses
keyword colon number, e.g.,post:4ortopic:123. This can be very useful is there's a way to show these IDs with every post (e.g., with an element title or tooltip).In general though,
#post_4would use the actual anchor in the HTML.#4would be great too, but it conflicts with the (current) category shortcut (BTW, what happens when you have a category name matching a tag name?)Both solutions though are problematic for i10n since they impose English words.
The shortcut to a post in the current topic should make category and topic implicit.
Since topic IDs are global,
..can be useful, as in.[optional topic ID].[post number], e.g.:
..4to link to post #4 in current topic.10.4to link to post #4 in topic 10
icon, when clicked, shows Posts: 4
Participants: 3
This is an beta plugin, still needs a round of testing before it's safe for production sites
