Link shortcuts

[Harshad]

Hi,
I am new to TW. I need to make a lot of links to standard locations
such as bugzilla entries. It would be cool if I could just say
[bug 100]

and get it converted to
http://bugzilla.mysite.com/bug_id=100

or something like that. Is there a plugin which can do that?

Thanks,
Harshad

[Eric Shulman]

> I am new to TW. I need to make a lot of links to standard locations
> such as bugzilla entries. It would be cool if I could just say
> [bug 100]
>

> and get it converted tohttp://bugzilla.mysite.com/bug_id=100

>
> or something like that. Is there a plugin which can do that?

http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#AliasPlugin

Usage:

To define the alias, put the following in any tiddler that is
displayed at startup (i.e., [[MainMenu]])
<<alias bug "http://bugzilla.mysite.com/bug_id=%0">>

Then, to USE the alias, simply write:
<<bug 100>>

enjoy
-e
Eric Shulman
TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios

[FND]

> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#AliasPlugin

Just for the record, you could also use transclusion*.

For example, you might have a tiddler [[TicketTemplate]] with the
following contents:
[[ticket $1|http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/$1]]
Then you could use the following macro call:
<<tiddler [[TicketTemplate]] with:"100">>

Of course this is much more verbose than using Eric's AliasPlugin, so
it's probably not a good alternative.

-- F.

* http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Transclusion

[Harshad]

Thanks for the replies.

The Alias Plugin seems more suitable for my needs.