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Quick update on link syntax --------------------------- The most recently proposed syntax, which abandons the | separator and bracketing []s in favour of a short "magic string" to mark a line as a link and then just whitespace separation, seems to have been well received. Even people who are not super enthusiastic about it seem to like it better than the [|] idea, so it's a step in the right direction and I think it makes sense to adopt it. Even if we decide to use that general system, there are details to sort out. We need to actually choose a particular magic string. The => option seems very popular - it reminds dgold of their childhood computing experiences[1], and sloum has told me he likes it as well. Unlike #! I don't think it is used for anything else, which reduces the scope for misunderstanding. I know visiblink requested avoiding the use of angle brackets in the syntax as they are rarely used and hard-to-find keys compared to many other things, and I feel bad not honouring that, but every character is strange and rare to somebody. I'm still happy to hear alternative magic strings. Do we allow whitespace as the =>? Do we make whitespace after it