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--- plugin:autolink4 [2020-10-25 23:42] – zioth
+++ plugin:autolink4 [2024-03-03 12:32] (current) – [Discussion] 43.239.85.173
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 ====== AutoLink 4 Plugin ======
 ---- plugin ----
 description: Automatically link text in your wiki to pages
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 email      : elifenton@this_is_not_a_real_email.fake
 type       : syntax
-lastupdate : 2020-10-25
+lastupdate : 2024-02-10
-compatible : Greebo,Hogfather
+compatible : Greebo, Hogfather, Igor, Jack Jackrum, Kaos
 depends    :
 conflicts  :
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   * It's easy to configure.
   * It's up to date, and works with the latest version of DokuWiki.
-  * It doesn't modify the original copies of the page; links are created on demand. This makes it easy to undo changes.
+  * It doesn't modify the original copies of the page, so if you uninstall the plugin, the links are gone.
-  * It works with [[autotooltip]] to add tooltips to its links.
+  * It integrates with [[autotooltip]] to automatically generate tooltips for each link.
 More information: [[plugin:autolink4:differences|Choosing an autolink plugin]].
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 Install the plugin using the [[plugin:plugin|Plugin Manager]] and the download URL above, which points to latest version of the plugin. Refer to [[:Plugins]] on how to install plugins manually.
-===== Examples/Usage =====
+===== Examples / Usage =====
 This plugin is configured with a list of links in the DokuWiki admin interface. Each line of the configuration consist of three fields separated by commas:
-  * Text to find. This can include certain regular expression characters, like square brackets and question marks. Pipe (|) and parentheses are not allowed. This plugin always links whole words and phrases. It will never link just part of a word.
+  * Text to find. This can include certain regular expression characters, like square brackets and question marks. Pipe (|) and parentheses are not allowed. This plugin always links whole words and phrases. It will never link just part of a word. See note below on non-English language support.
   * The link for the text.
   * The namespace where the replacement is done. Omit this field to replace everywhere.
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     * inword: Replace partial words. DokuWiki defines a word as characters surrounded by spaces or punctuation, so this is required for languages that do not require space between words.
-== Simple example ==
+== Simple examples ==
   Things, mywiki:thing
 This links the word "Things" to mywiki:thing, everywhere on your wiki. It only links it when capitalized.
+  Things, mywiki:thing#heading
+This links to the section of the mywiki:thing page with the section header "heading."
 == Limiting replacement to a namespace ==
   Things, mywiki:thing, mywiki
 The word "Things" will only be replaced inside the "mywiki" namespace.
 == Tooltips ==
   Things, mywiki:thing, , tt
-The link will include a tooltip, which is drawn from the title and abstract of mywiki:thing.
+The link will include a tooltip, which is drawn from the title and abstract of mywiki:thing. This feature requires [[autotooltip]].
+Links to specific sections will base the tooltip on the page, not the section. This is due to a limitation of DokuWiki and autotooltip (the tooltip comes from the abstract, and sections do not have abstracts).
 == Search inside of words ==
   Things, mywiki:thing, , inword
-== Tooltip, and link first match ==
+== Combining flags ==
   Things, mywiki:thing, , once|tt
 The link will include a tooltip, and only the first occurrence of this match will be linked.
 == Regular expressions ==
   [Tt]hings?, mywiki:thing
-This links the words "Thing," "thing," "Things" and "things" to mywiki:thing. Remember that pipe (|) and parentheses are not allowed.
+This links the words "Thing," "thing," "Things" and "things" to mywiki:thing. Some of the more useful regular expression tools include:
+  * Square brackets([]): Matches every character between the brackets.
+  * Question mark (?): The previous character is optional.
+  * Period (.): Match any character.
+  * Asterisk (*): Match zero or more of the previous character.
+  * Plus (+): Match one or more of the previous character.
+  * \s: Match a space.
+  * \S: Match a non-space.
+  * \b: Match the start or end of a word.
+Not supported:
+  * DokuWiki forbids the use of pipe (|) or parentheses. Using these will fail, and break other plugins.
 == Proper ordering ==
   Incredible Things, mywiki:thing
   Things, mywiki:thing
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 Replacements are made in the order in which they occur in the configuration. So if you have a short replacement which is contained within a longer one, list the longer one first.
-===== Non-Latin language support =====
-Due to [[https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/856|limited non-Latin support in DokuWiki]], this plugin cannot work with certain characters in the search strings. To fix it, you will have to edit some core DokuWiki code. Open /inc/Parsing/Lexer/ParallelRegex.php, and change the getPerlMatchingFlags function to:
+===== Non-English language support =====
+Due to [[issue>856|limited non-Latin support in DokuWiki]], this plugin cannot work with certain characters in regular expressions. To fix it, you will have to edit some core DokuWiki code. Open ''/inc/Parsing/Lexer/ParallelRegex.php'', and change the ''getPerlMatchingFlags'' function to:
   protected function getPerlMatchingFlags()
   {
     return ($this->case ? "umsS" : "umsSi");
   }
 ===== Development =====
 === Performance ===
 I tested with 500 regular expression matches, with no noticeable impact on performance. If you scale to several thousand, I recommend limiting the number of regular expression links.
 ==Nerd speak==
-The asymptotic complexity of this plugin is O(r*u + s), where r is the total number of configured links with regular expression characters, s is the number of configured links without regular expression characters, and u is the number of unique matched text strings on the page. So performance is only minimally impacted by non-regex entries, and becomes worse the more regex entries you have, and the more times those entries appear on the page.
+The asymptotic complexity of this plugin is O(r*u + s), where r is the total number of configured links with regular expression characters, s is the number of configured links without regular expression characters, and u is the number of unique matched text strings on the page. This means that performance is only minimally impacted by non-regex entries, and becomes worse the more regex entries you have, and the more times those entries appear on the page.
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 === ToDo/Wish List ===
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 ===== Discussion =====
+**[APPLAUSE]** This implementation for auto-linking is handy to use. I may not be a heavy user since I haven't come up so many strings to be auto-linked to relative pages, but this plugin indeed suits my need in a most elegant way. --- [[user>MilchFlasche|milchflasche]] //2020-10-26 02:56//
+howto: eg. #number, http://www.example.com/number   - rick.