[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: rationale for changing # to %23 in the textual description in emacs-wiki-make-link

[Michael Olson]

Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:

> In planner-psvn.el I use '#' to describe the revision number, like
> "projectA#236". Which means projectA at revision 236
>
> With the actual emacs wiki, the '#' is replaced by "%23".
>
> What is the reason for that change?

The behavior has been this way since last year.  I guess there isn't
much point to escaping '#' in links, so I've removed this behavior.
"%23" will still be unescaped to "#" for compatibility's sake.

2005-09-25 01:31:22 GMT Michael Olson <address@hidden>  patch-137

    Summary:
      Fix '#' in link descriptions.
    Revision:
      emacs-wiki--main--1.0--patch-137

    * emacs-wiki.el (emacs-wiki-link-escape): Don't escape '#' if we are
      given a link description.  Thanks to Stefan Reichör for the report.
      (emacs-wiki-link-unescape): Update documentation.

    modified files:
     ChangeLog emacs-wiki.el

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