Permanent Anchors

Permanent anchors can be included in pages. They create a globally-usable name (in the same namespace as normal wikipage names) that leads to the marked fragment. They are like a “COME FROM” statement for wiki - the permanent anchor creates an implicit redirect from the nonexistant page to the fragment.

Possibilities

Name Collisions

In OddMuse, when a page containing a permanent anchor is saved, any existing occurence of the permanent anchor is removed. This is a reasonable solution for anchor-name-only collisions, though users should perhaps be warned. (What does OddMuse do if an anchor name conflicts with a page name? Perhaps it has a separate table of anchor-names and consults the list of pages first before checking for a PermanentAnchor…)

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