Bug: No Bold Wiki Words

Camel-cased words made bold using the * * construction are not WikiWords.

Test case

ThisIsALink ThisShouldBeABoldLink
[[IShouldntHaveToDoThis][ *IShouldntHaveToDoThis* ]]: IShouldntHaveToDoThis -- ShaughanLavine - 15 Mar 2005

Environment

-- ShaughanLavine - 15 Mar 2005

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Discussion

I'm unsure whether what you suggest is legal TWikiML, I don't believe so ("only WikiWords that are preceeded by whitespace or paranthesis will get automatically linked" - according to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules#TWiki_Editing_Shorthand).

What about this construct instead:

*[[ThisShouldBeABoldLink]]* : ThisShouldBeABoldLink

At least, that's perfectly legal

-- SteffenPoulsen - 16 Mar 2005

Steffen is right. The behaviour is no bug, it's in line with the specification.

Do we have a state classification for BugRejected?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 16 Mar 2005

"NeedsARethink". It's a bit less caustic than "rejected", especially in cases where it might be the analysis that is at fault, and not the report.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 Mar 2005

I think the author of this report intended to question the specification...

-- ThomasWeigert - 16 Mar 2005

So this becomes a FeatureRequest?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 16 Mar 2005

If they intended to question the spec, it should have been clearer in the report. Personally I don't agree with the proposed spec change; I find it very useful to be able to trivially escape wikiwords that way.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 Mar 2005

If you want to escape a wiki word, use the new, more-trivial and no-side-effect mechanism: prefix with a !

-- MartinCleaver - 16 Mar 2005

So you want me to have to write *!FrankNStein*? Bleagh. As is usually the case with these things, someone else is welcome to work out the code that handles all the gribbly little corner cases and submit it as a patch (which I then reserve the right to ignore).

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 Mar 2005

But it is counter intuitive, isn't it? Why would WebHome make a link now and WebHome not?

The same goes for underscores (italics): _WebHome_ becomes WebHome.

Of course, this is in the specs, but does this mean it was always intended like this? Or is it just too difficult to program?

-- ArthurClemens - 13 Apr 2005

The corner cases are hard to work out, yes. But anything can be programmed - all you need is an infinite number of monkeys.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Apr 2005

Purely from a consistency point of view, I'd argue that the link FrankNStein is 
inituitively bolded as *FrankNStein* and that the non-link !FrankNStein is intuitively 
bolded as *!FrankNStein*

*FrankNStein* being not linked is a side-effect of the current implementation.

-- MartinCleaver - 13 Apr 2005