TracLinks notations for showing a wiki diff

[Ryan J Ollos]

I often find myself adding links such as wiki:TracInstall@374?action=diff in order to reference a wiki change from a ticket comment. TracInstall@374 could be used, which renders the page with a #info containing a link to the diff, but that's less obvious when I really want to just shown the diff and also requires two clicks to get to the information I want to emphasize.

wiki:TracInstall@374?action=diff is not too awful, and it could be wrapped in brackets, but that results in TracInstall@374, and it's not obvious to the reader that the link directs to a diff.

So, I'm unsure what, if any, the ideal addition to the TracLinks syntax would be, but I'm thinking of something like diff:TracLinks@374, with the complementary explicit version wiki:diff:TracLinks@374. The diff part is an action, so I'm not sure whether placing it after the realm would fit with the general patterns adopted by TracLinks.

Maybe TracInstall@374 is good enough, or maybe we just need to make that link to a diff (or the entire #info) a little more prominent.

[lkraav <leho@…>]

TracLinks generation system overall could really use some kind of an automatic generation helper, "as you write" tooltip/autocomplete system. For anybody else, but the hardcore Trac junkie, remembering the different orders and syntax options is overwhelming.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Normalizing keywords.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Alternatively, if the #info message was more prominent the diff TracLink might not be as necessary and the form InterTrac@46 could be used with confidence that the user would immediately notice the #info message containing the diff link

[Christian Boos]

What about wiki:InterTrac∆46? Good for the hardcore Trac and Unicode junkie ;-)

More seriously, I also favor Ryan's suggestion, which would even be perfect if we ever get to implement highlighting of wiki differences within the view itself (#1245).

[Peter Suter]

Would InterTrac@45-46 or InterTrac@46:45 work?

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to psuter:

Would InterTrac@45-46 or InterTrac@46:45 work?

Interesting idea. Probably worth a try at the implementation at least.

[Peter Suter]

Replying to lkraav <leho@…>:

TracLinks generation system overall could really use some kind of an automatic generation helper, "as you write" tooltip/autocomplete system.

See comment:60:ticket:9643.