The first technique I ever learned for linking to other perlmonks nodes from inside a post that I'm writing was to put just the node-id, together with some text to label it, inside square brackets, like this: 
[44715|graff's home node]

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I gather you could also use a string representing a node title in place of the node-id (assuming someone doesn't decide to change the node's title string at some later date).

I don't recall which of the FAQ/intro/help pages at the Monastery gave me this idea (I got habituated to this a couple years ago). Having looked for it just now, I'm only seeing instructions that involve putting the "id://" prefix on the node-id.

All the links I've put in my nodes, using just the unadorned node-id, still seem to work. (That's a relief!) But now that I know more about the "id://" prefix, I'll use it. Thanks.

In reply to Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by graff
in thread Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by tilly

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