Two weeks ago I provided a patch Re: node_info_string - (patch) to change the linking of the ID in the header of all nodes to [id://...] style.

The idea is to facilitate linking to nodes by simple copy&paste.

NB: Some browsers facilitate this further by providing a "copy link text" entry in the context menu (right-click/long touch)

Explicitly

==== BEFORE:

The links in the page headers below the title looked like

==== AFTER:

Now they display [id://...] around the link

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This patch was experimental, but so far nobody complained. I'd even say almost nobody noticed. :)

Linking with id:// has many advantages, like avoiding lock-outs and displaying the nodes title.

I hope this will make proper linking easier.

On a side note: I personally used this for over a decade already, changing the link was one of my first Nodelet hacks in JS. Implementing it for PM proved to be far more complicated tho.

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