[Link] shortcut

[John Gruber]

Aaron Swartz <aaronsw at gmail.com> wrote on 03/21/05 at 10:25am:

> >     Check out [this] [that] and [the other].
> 
> Why not just not allow spaces between the link text and the link code.
> It looks odd anyway.I didn't even realize they were allowed. You still
> couldn't do:
> 
> >      Check this out: [1][2][3]
> 
> but that seems pretty obviously wrong to me.

That's a good idea. But I think it's too late to change; I use
spaces between `[link text] [id]` often.

One workaround if you want put consecutive links together using the
new shortcut style would be to use two spaces:

    [this]  [that] and [the other]


> I don't like the underscore thing at all.

That's good, because it's definitely not going to happen.  :^)

-J.G.