G'day Rolf,

Before your change:

Quite some time ago, all nodes in a thread, except the root node, had [id://nnnnnn] added, as plain text, after the header. It had this basic format: 

Re: Thread Title [id:/nnnnnn]

In order to see that change, "Show an id:// shortcut on replies?" in Display Settings needs to be selected.

I have been using this often and find it extremely useful.

After your change:

[I don't know about others, but I hadn't noticed this changed. I haven't been around much lately due a bout of COVID followed by the side-effects of anti-viral drugs.]

I would like to see some consistency with the previous change. This would involve two things.

Firstly, the previous heading style is retained with [id://nnnnnn] added, as plain text, afterwards: 

on <timestamp> ( #nnnnnn=<section> ...) [id:/nnnnnn]

Secondly, a new option is added to Display Settings": "Show an id:// shortcut on root nodes?" (comparable to the "... on replies?" option shown above).

By the way, the space you show before "=section" (two instances) doesn't actually exist. Selecting [id://nnnnnn] from [id://nnnnnn]=<section> can be tricky as it's quite easy to end up following the link rather than selecting the link text.

— Ken

In reply to Re: New feature: copy/pastable self referential backlink [id://...] for every node by kcott
in thread New feature: copy/pastable self referential backlink [id://...] for every node by LanX

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