Turns out it's also used to format the title bar of each node (not to be confused with the written title) and can be configured.

See How do I link to a node on this site by number?:

> Edit your Display Settings and set the Custom Node Title Definition to include %N (to show the node ID). You'll probably want this to show the node's Title as well, so include %T in the setting too.

FWIW: it's this title which will end in your bookmark list after adding (not what's printed inside the body).

So if you are maintaining large link collections like eyepops or discipulus and want to automatically add infos like date and author, a detour via collecting bookmarks and importing them might be helpful. :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^3: Docs for enhanced linking style with '<' for '|' ? by LanX
in thread Docs for enhanced linking style with '<' for '|' ? by LanX

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