Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by
111ragnarok
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
In a world with many articles, the current text link features using the @ symbol make it difficult to find articles. In some cases, duplicate article names are difficult to sort out. To solve this, I suggest 3 improvments:
Category Paths in Article Suggestions
When listing article suggestions, include the articles category path below the article name in a "subtext" type formatting.
Example:
Article 1 Title
Parent Category/Child Category
Article 2 Title
Parent Category
Filter Suggestions By Article Type
Adding the ability to filter articles while using textual links would improve the feature greatly.
This could be done by putting the article type directly after the @ symbol and placing a ":" before the article name.
Examples:
@person:bob
@landmark:ale house
Also, please add a way to use @ directly in text.
"noparse" works, but it really messes with syntax highlighting.
Search Articles When Creating References
Sometimes, an article title is not enough.
Being able to search by content and other elements would be great.
This could be implemented with a syntax like "@search:dagger" or "@s:elf".
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Creating article references would be much simpler.
What are other uses for this feature request?
Using the @directive:parameter format, text linking could become a powerful feature.
It could be used for macros too at some point.
Follow up
The "directive:parameter" sytax would only be for searching. Once an article is selected, it would use the normal syntax. Just to be clear, the new syntax would just be a helper to lookup an article.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestions! In the future, please only suggest one feature per suggestion. Due to the formatting of this suggestion, we have no way of knowing the specific priorities of the community (which is the main purpose of this system). Therefore, we can't accept this as a whole due to the low amount of support spread over multiple suggestions. That said, we're looking at ways to improve the search system, which is what drives the mention system suggestions too.
Current score
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