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[Colin Tedford <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul: I answered your question badly. As Ugur mentions, most of us who
want a different tag symbol aren't concerned about turning off the
@-tags so I glossed over your main concern. Sorry about that!
Colin
colintedford.com


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:45 AM,  <hansbkk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes Twitter will come and go (good riddance) but I hope Zim will be around
> for generations.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Marco Cevoli <marco.cevoli@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I see. It makes lot of sense.
>>
>> Marco Cevoli
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jaap Karssenberg
>> <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Main logic is that "#" is also used for anchors in HTML links. So
>> > reserved
>> > "#" for links and decided on "@" since this is used for tags in
>> > applications
>> > predating twitter.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Jaap
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Marco Cevoli <marco.cevoli@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I know this has been discussed before, but why don't we follow
>> >> twitter's standard? All words with @ are for people/users and # for
>> >> actual tags. I don't know if this unnecessary complicates things, but
>> >> it might be useful to many users. The developer(s) can only change the
>> >> actual @ with # , and this "user/contact management" (using @) can be
>> >> created as an external plugin, ie, not forcing everyone to use it,
>> >> since Zim is designed as a personal organizer.
>> >>
>> >> Just brainstorming.
>> >>
>> >> Marco Cevoli
>> >> Technical translator. Graphic designer. Joiner-of-dots.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Jaap Karssenberg
>> >> <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Güven, Ugur Murat
>> >> > <murat.gueven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >Colin:[… ]Ugur Murat wants it and has done coding in related areas
>> >> >> > so
>> >> >> > I've been hoping they might do it someday. […]
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I was thinking of having the @ sign for general tags, and the # sign
>> >> >> for
>> >> >> people tags, as I’m using tags heavily, also
>> >> >> for tasks to assign to people.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What I could imagine is to have the tags symbol to be a setting in
>> >> >> preferences, but changing the tag symbol is not that
>> >> >> easy, as far as I can see.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > This is a bad idea design wise. The wiki syntax parsing should not
>> >> > depend on
>> >> > preferences. Data format should be stable.
>> >> >
>> >> >> >Paul:Each time I paste into Zim a string containing @, it handles
>> >> >> > that
>> >> >> > string as a tag.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Currently I can see only a workaround, replacing the @ sign by
>> >> >> anything
>> >> >> else, when you copy paste your text.
>> >> >
>> >> > Replacing is indeed a work around. Real solution would be to handle
>> >> > the
>> >> > copy-paste such that you get the wanted result. E.g. use the "@", but
>> >> > escape
>> >> > it such that it is not formatted as tag, or a "paste-as-verbatim"
>> >> > function.
>> >> >
>> >> > But first need to understand the way Paul is using these strings to
>> >> > judge
>> >> > best direction.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > Jaap
>> >> >
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