Recently, jdporter implemented an off-hand suggestion I made prompting me to make the following suggestion:

Frequently, when composing a message, I find I need to refer to What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?. I think it may useful to add a summary of common shortcuts to the help text in the message composition and preview windows. I hacked for a little while, and came up with the following as a starting point for discussion:

Link shortcuts (See complete documentation for more.)

• A monks home page ([<monkname>]).
• A perlmonks node ([id://<nodeNumber>]) or Super Search ([Super Search]).
• A perlmonks node ([id://<nodeNumber>]) or a monks home page ([<monkname>]).
• Module documentation ([mod://Module::Name]) or CPAN search ([cpan://<Module::Name>]).
• Search Google ([google://<search terms>]) or Wikipedia ([wp://<search terms>]).
• Generic web link ([href://your.link.here|Text for link]).

I tried to keep it short and to-the-point, but I'm sure it could be improved. (Example: Are scratchpads mentioned often enough to be mentioned? Or do they change frequently enough that we shouldn't encourage their use on pages? I suspect the latter, but I put it in for balance.)

...roboticus

Update: Changed [node:// to [id:// to reference PerlMonks nodes, and removed reference to scratchpad.

Update: Removed Super Search link and merged two lines...

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