Item4352: Alias:<space> is translated by the InterwikiPlugin

Alias:<space> should not be translated by the InterwikiPlugin.

I've found that by adding an Inter-Wiki Link in InterWikis with the external site alias = Note: causes the text Note:<space> to be translated by the InterwikiPlugin in every place that the text Note: something important is encountered. This is problematic because the use of Note:<space> is so very commonly used in regular text. The same buggy behaviour must also be true for any Alias:<space> that is defined.

I've marked this bug as urgent, because the InterwikiPlugin is a default plugin.

-- TWiki:Main/KeithHelfrich - 12 Jul 2007

If this is true then the same should happen here on bugs with a word like News.

Let us try.

First an example where the linking should happen. Link to News:war

And now an example where we should not have a link to News: war

I have tested this both on MAIN and on 4.1.2 and I do not see this bug. The reporter has given 4.0.1 as the version.

Nothing to do on this report.

Upgrade Keith! There are at least 2000 bugs solved since that version.

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 13 Jul 2007

This on a 4.1.2 engine. But that does not matter at all. InterwikiPlugin has not changed for a long time. Let's have some more tests:

• News:war
• News: war
• News:
• News:
• News:
• __ News:__ ah, this is the broken case. That's a pattern from TWikiUsers. Reopening. -- TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum - 13 Jul 2007

Note also that the alias does not work if found at the end of a bold string :

• There is rarely any News:peace to speak of
• There is rarely any News:peace

-- TWiki:Main.KeithHelfrich - 23 Jul 2007

Isn't this a spec discussion?

The regular expression can easily be changed to not support News:__ and support News:peace*, but the better way would be to just escape the TML correctly, i.e.:

• Change News:__ into <nop>News:__
• Change News:peace* into a link in square brackets (as it is also nescessary with regular wikiwords at the end of a bold)

Setting this to no action required, but please feel free to open spec discussion in TWiki:Plugins.InterwikiPluginDev. News: seems to be gone from <nop>TWikiUsers in the meantime.

-- TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen - 27 Aug 2007