Mailing List Archive: (bug) "]" disappears

I found a little bug. Discovered it (now fixed) while working on
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Perendev_Power_Developments_Pty_%28Ltd%29#See_also
or try http://tinyurl.com/58mwy

Under "See also"; in the browser, the following appeared
[[Directory:Magnetic Motors ]

Yet in code it was
[[Directory:Magnetic Motors]]

It turns out that it was because I omitted the closing "]" from a link
several sections higher
([.mailto:perendev-subscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=subscribe subscribe)

Somehow that omission was picked up by the "spare ]" on the first internal
link it came to.

I don't know if this is a bug so much as a suggestion for programming.
Namely the following rule to be created: (sorry, very awkward to describe)
If a closing "]" is missing from external url syntax, then when the code is
previewed (or viewed as normal), an opening "[." will be shown as "[."
...if the opening "[" is not followed by a closing "]" prior to a double
return or a heading or a bullet or a line ....

Sterling

> I don't know if this is a bug so much as a suggestion for programming.
> Namely the following rule to be created: (sorry, very awkward to describe)
> If a closing "]" is missing from external url syntax, then when the code is
> previewed (or viewed as normal), an opening "[." will be shown as "[."
> ...if the opening "[" is not followed by a closing "]" prior to a double
> return or a heading or a bullet or a line ....
>
> Sterling

Let's just hope we get somewhere with the new parser, so we can stop
having to think of horrible special cases like this - the definition
of an ext. link can simply not be met if there is a new paragraph, or
heading, or whatever...

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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]