Question

I'd really like to implement on-line, user-updateable man pages in a TWiki web. I was thinking some kind of InterwikiPlugin thing, but the problem is that the name will almost certainly not be a WikiWord! For example, something like man:open would resolve to the the visible word "open" (no quotes) which would be a link to the reference pagaes web with a page of "open". Or something.

I don't know exactly how this would work, but the key, as always with Wiki, is to make it as drop-dead simple for people to create and correct these reference pages as humanly possible, so I don't want to have to resort to longer tags using [[]] or whatever.

Does anyone have any ideas on plugins, or changes, or whatever, that might help me?

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001
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-- PaulSmith - 30 Jun 2002

Answer

I see that you don't want to use the double square bracket syntax, but I'm not sure it's that bad. If you create a web named "Man", and a page named "Open", then you can reference it with [[Man.open]] and the link will look like Man.open. If a web name can start with a lowercase letter (I don't know), then you could reference it with [[man.open]] and the link will look like man.open.

Note: I used the "Vi" page on the "Wikilearn" web to test this -- a link like [[Wikilearn.vi]] looks like: Wikilearn.vi.

If no better suggestions are forthcoming, maybe this is a way to start until you (or someone) can modify the code to provide some more suitable approach.

BTW, your project (on-line, user-updateable man pages in a TWiki web) is just the kind of thing I'd like to incorporate in Wikilearn.WikiLearn. If you'd be interested in working together let me know. Taking a look at Wikilearn.AboutThesePages might provide you with an idea of the current status.

-- RandyKramer - 01 Jul 2002