-I'd like to use a shortcut like \[[gnumach-1-branch ddb/db_expr.h]] to link to
-<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumach/ddb/db_expr.h?view=log&root=hurd&pathrev=gnumach-1-branch>.
+The plugin somehow depends on [[mdwn]]. If you have
+disabled [[mdwn]], to get [[shortcut]] work, you need
+commit in a shortcuts.ext (ext is `rcs|creole|html|txt|etc`).
-* Dashes are not allowed in shortcut identifiers. Why?
+Then edit the following lines in [[shortcut]] plugin source:
-* The URL is rewritten to
- <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumach/ddb%2Fdb%5Fexpr%2Eh?view=log&root=hurd&pathrev=gnumach-1-branch>,
- which the remove server doesn't like. Mind the esacping of [^A-Za-z0-9].
- Might this be a problem of the web server?
+ my $srcfile=srcfile("shortcuts.mdwn", 1);
-Also, I'd like to put the shortcut usages into backticks
--- `[[iki shortcuts]]` --
-to have them displayed in the usual backtick-formatting.
-That also doesn't work, but this is an already-reported issue, as far as I know.
+and
---[[tschwinge]]
+ error(gettext("shortcut plugin will not work without a shortcuts.mdwn"));
+
+
+(It is better to edit a local copy of shortcut.pm in, say, ~/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin
+and add ~/.ikiwiki to libdir in your ikiwiki.setup than edit the shortcut.pm installed
+in system directly.)