Item10296: Wiki word regex bugs

Inconsistencies make that I cannot remember the correct grammar.

To link or not to link?

=WebHome and WebHome more=

renders as:

WebHome and WebHome more

To not link or not to not link?

=!WebHome and !WebHome more=

renders as:

!WebHome and WebHome more

-- ArthurClemens - 27 Jan 2011

What about:

*WebHome and WebHome more*

renders as:

WebHome and WebHome more

Any markup adjacent to a wikiword makes it non-linking.

-- GeorgeClark - 27 Jan 2011

A fascinating problem is Question764, where asian (logographic) languages don't really have the same concept of whitespace. So effectively, they expect xxxxx*yyyyy*zzzzz to produce xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz

-- PaulHarvey - 28 Jan 2011

one small warning - this oddity has come up at least twice in the codebase's existance, and both times the code was reverted back very quickly because there are lots of annoying corner cases in which this (really friggen stupid) functionality was made use of.

if we do manage to change it, be prepared to annoy alot of people

-- SvenDowideit - 18 Feb 2011

At the risk of lighting a fire, that's not a bug, that's a feature. Use of punctuation to control wikiword expansion is - for better or for worse = endemic in Foswiki content. I do not believe we can change this. No action.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 15 Mar 2011

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