The idea behind this was to get pmdev out of the business of providing linker methods, especially the more esoteric ones. Maybe I link a lot to foobar.com in my posts, but no-one else does. Why should the Monastery provide a linker method just for me and my closest friends? But, why should I have to do what a computer can easily do for me? Enter custom linkers.

I'm thinking of a way that I can create a linker that I call foobar:// and it would look like:

foobar: <a href="www.foobar.com?baz=%L">Foobar: %T</a>

Now, you don't have to wade through yet another discussion of how PM does/doesn't provide a linker for foobar.com. I can just go make one. If you like it, add it to the default linkers.

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In reply to Re^7: Personalizing the linkers (happen) by dragonchild
in thread Personalizing the linkers by dragonchild

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