Automatic linking in Hep
Inspired by
suggestion at Web 2.0, I added auto-linking to Hep yesterday.
Here’s how it works. Say you have a Wiki that you often link to in
your blog posts. You add the Wiki to your list of Hep resources (via
an RSS feed, or Atom). Now Hep sees all your Wiki pages as messages.
Next, you tell Hep that you want to use the Wiki as a source of auto
linking. From then on, when posting a message via Hep, all your
WikiWords will be linked to automatically.
But it’s even more useful than that. Since Hep treats all message
sources equally, you can enable auto links from other sources besides
Wikis. For example, I’ve enabled auto linking for my del.icio.us
bookmarks feed. And here are some of the things I’ve bookmarked: Hep
Message Server. Garrett Wilkin. TextDrive. The Comment API.
See those links? Hep created them automatically for me. For
non-WikiWords, or phrases with spaces, you just [enclose the phrase in
brackets].
This feature is currently live on hep.fettig.net, and it will be in the
next release. Hep 0.7 is going to rock!
