With the help of the Most Enlightened (thanks!) (and some research on my part), we now have new link tags available. Each searches a certain site for the value you provide and returns a list of hits:
[jargon://] searches the Jargon file hosted at the University of Amsterdam.
Examples: meme, "You're a Nazi!", "Don't do this."
(I chose this one because I can get to it through the web filtering software I have to deal with at work. Folks have posted links to other copies of the Jargon file, but many of those are blocked by that software.)
[kobe://] is an alternate for the [cpan://] tag; it searches the CPAN mirror at the University of Winnipeg for a given module or distribution. It's named after the maintainer of that site.
Examples: sendmail, lwp, Here's an easy way to install CPAN modules.
(It was chosen because I've found [cpan://] to be slow from time to time and use this one more often than not.)
[perldoc://] searches perldoc. The idea here is to provide a way of linking to current Perl documentation.
Examples: unlink, A Cookbook, "How do I send email from Perl?"
(This was based on a recent conversation.)
Again, these tags only provide the search results, so they're not as specific as linking directly to a given document. However, I hope they'll prove at least as useful as other tags that've been added over time.
Update: Owing to popular demand, we've added [pad://] as a shortcut to a user's scratch pad.
Please note that this behaves slightly differently if you do not enter a title parameter. If, for example, you type [pad://footpad], the result is "footpad's scratchpad".
If you enter a title, it behaves like the other link tags, e.g. "Check this out."
Update #2: Thanks to the tireless (and a little help from me), the documentation has been updated. (P.S. Thanks for the help, tye.)
Cheers!
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Re: New Link Tags
by suaveant (Parson) on Oct 18, 2001 at 18:11 UTC | |
by tye (Sage) on Oct 18, 2001 at 19:04 UTC | |
Re: New Link Tags
by stefan k (Curate) on Oct 18, 2001 at 19:54 UTC | |
Re: New Link Tags
by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Oct 19, 2001 at 02:25 UTC | |
Re: New Link Tags
by tommyw (Hermit) on Oct 18, 2001 at 18:22 UTC | |
by $code or die (Deacon) on Oct 18, 2001 at 19:14 UTC | |
by tommyw (Hermit) on Oct 18, 2001 at 19:34 UTC | |
Re: New Link Tags
by Masem (Monsignor) on Oct 18, 2001 at 22:04 UTC | |
Re: New Link Tags
by echo (Pilgrim) on Oct 18, 2001 at 22:17 UTC |