[moin-user] Negating Automatically Generated Links stopped working (sort of)

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Le Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:16:07 +0200, Martin Östlund via moin-user <moin-user at python.org> a écrit :
> Some months ago I was faced with a situation where I had to migrate
> moin 1.9.10 of from an old rhel6 server to rhel8,
> 
> Since moin 1.9.10 requires python2 I installed moin (still v1.9.10) 
> inside a docker container to keep things easily managed, and then 
> restored the data and underlay folders, and wikiconfig.py as well.
> 
> Everything seemed to be running well and smooth, until a colleague 
> noticed that negating automatically generated links by putting an !
> in front of it didn't have the same behavior as before the migration.
> The link will indeed be negated, but it will also output the !
> infront of it, which it didn't do before.
> 
>  From HelpOnLinking:
> http://moinmo.in/HelpOnLinking
> 
> "To keep a word like PageName from automatically being turned into a 
> link, you can suppress CamelCase linking by putting an exclamation
> mark (!) before the word, i.e. !PageName. This method will not
> interfere with most searches (the exception is certain quoted phrases
> and regular expressions)."
> 
> I'm not even sure where or how to start debugging this issue, any
> help and pointers are much appreciated.

Did you check the value of the bang_meta setting in your config or farm
config?

http://moinmo.in/HelpOnConfiguration#various

HTH.

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Jean-Philippe Guérard
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