Question
The case of mysterious disappearing text. Perhaps somebody can explain this please...
I had the text J -dot- ROOT-SERVERS -dot- NET in a topic, and it appeared thus:
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET - edit this topic see what's really here.
Where's my J gone???
Thanks.
Environment
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SteveFolly - 21 Jan 2004
Answer
This is a confusing "feature" of autolinking. Three (four, five..) letter acronymns are linked automagically like
RCS. That works also across webs with the "Web.Topic" rule like
RCS, in which case the web is not shown.
If you type
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET you will get
ROOT-SERVERS.NET because
"J.ROOT" is a valid link to a topic called
ROOT in web
J.
Workaround: Escape autolinking with a preceeding
<nop> like
<nop>J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
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PeterThoeny - 27 Jan 2004