Question

My company's name is GenArts, which gets turned into a wiki word everywhere we use it, so all my users have to learn to type ! first or else I'd need to create a junk GenArts topic in each web to prevent the ugly question mark.

Is it possible to have a plugin that just notices certain words and makes sure they don't get turned into links?

Environment

-- GaryOberbrunner - 11 Nov 2004

Answer

You could quite easily modify the DefaultPlugin so that it prevents this word being recognised as a WikiWord. In the outsidePREHandler function, you could put something like this:

        $_[0] =~ s/GenArts/<nop>GenArts/go;

I haven't tested this, but it's worth a try. If you upgrade TWiki, be sure to copy DefaultPlugin.pm somewhere first to avoid losing your modifications.

You can see this plugin at SVNget:lib/TWiki/Plugins/DefaultPlugin.pm.

-- RichardDonkin - 15 Nov 2004

Isn't this exactly what the * Set NOAUTOLINK = ThisWord setting in TWikiPreferences is good for? To prevent ThisWord from being hyperlinked everytime it appears?

-- TorbenGB - 19 Nov 2004

No, the NOAUTOLINK is a flag to turn WikiWord autolinking on/off. Turn it on of you only want the explicit [[link][label]] links.

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Nov 2004

TWiki has now a StopWikiWordLinkPlugin where you can prevent links for a set of WikiWords.

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Aug 2006

OK I have the opposite scenario - I have a product called ABCow which isn't a recognized WikiWord, but I would like it to be... is there a way to specify words that should be detected as WikiWords? Update: OK I found another question that addresses this - see StopWikiWordLinkPluginDev for details.

-- MichaelBray - 01 May 2008