Phab vs. Trac

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| There is a mapping of the 'interwiki syntax' we can use here:
| 
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/InterMapTxt

Interesting.  That looks useful.

How would one find that page?  Is it linked from "Wiki notes" in the left margin box?  I don't think so.

As to the content

* What does "This page is interpreted in a special way by Trac" mean??  And the following text.  It's utterly opaque to me.

* I believe that the main payload is this: look at the table.  If you use Prefix:blah, where Prefix comes from the first column, then you get a link to Site/blah, where Site comes from the second column.  Maybe.

* What are the dollars?

* Why do we need links to a cheese shop?

* Are there other useful wiki-isms that are not mentioned here?

Thanks

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: mad.one at gmail.com [mailto:mad.one at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Austin
| Seipp
| Sent: 15 July 2014 04:16
| To: Simon Peyton Jones
| Cc: Austin Seipp; Richard Eisenberg; ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Phab vs. Trac
| 
| I had no idea about it either; Herbert made me aware of it.
| 
| There is a mapping of the 'interwiki syntax' we can use here:
| 
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/InterMapTxt
| 
| The 'Phab' syntax is just one of many.
| 
| I'll add it to the wiki page!
| 
| On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
| <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
| > | Look at the top - there is a link to 'Phab:D69', which is the
| > | differential revision hyperlinked properly.
| > |
| > | If you use this syntax in Trac now, it will automatically hyperlink
| > | revisions. Perhaps in the future we can shorten it to just 'D69'
| for
| > | example. But this syntax works now to hyperlink directly to
| > | Phabricator.
| >
| > Is this now part of GHC Trac wiki markup syntax generally?  Ie can
| occur in any wiki text?  If so, could it be documented?  Do we have a
| place where we collect all GHC-trac-specific Wiki markup? If not, could
| we have one.
| >
| > Otherwise how would a new person ever find out?
| >
| > Simon
| >
| 
| 
| 
| --
| Regards,
| 
| Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
| Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/