In a discussion titled ‘Magic Markdown tag for links to tags,’ pfaffman suggests implementing a StackExchange-style [tag:tag-name] syntax to link to tagged topics, noting its usefulness for creating easy topic links and encouraging tag usage. codinghorror confirms this is on @tgxworld’s list to explore, though acknowledges potential naming conflicts between tags and categories. pfaffman agrees overloading # for both tags and categories is problematic and proposes alternative symbols like $ or % for tag links. codinghorror responds that categories and tags should ideally share a namespace since they serve similar purposes for users and groups. The conversation reflects ongoing consideration of enhancing tag-linking functionality while avoiding user confusion through clear syntax differentiation.
In the editor typing @ or # offers completion to link to users and categories, respectively.
Stackexchange offers a [tag:tag-name] tag to link to messages of a tag. I cannot seem to find such functionality here. Am I missing something?
If I’m not missing something, here’s how I’d use it. I’m using Discourse to run online classes and have people add tags to their solutions to the assignments/challenges I give them. It would be handy to have an easy way to create a link to all of the topics with a given tag. (And it would save, maybe a dozen keystrokes each time I add such a link! ).
Right. Overloading the # tag for both tags and categories seems like a bad idea because of those conflicts. Maybe % or $ as a tag symbol? Or the stackexchange [tag:tag-name] seems like a good-enough solution.
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