[Moin-user] [[BR]] vs <<BR>>

[Thomas Waldmann]

> > The release page at http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.6 doesn't explain this
> > change (it just says "new macro markup").  Can you point me to an
> > explanation for the change?
> 
> Maybe read the 1.6 HelpOnLinking page then it should be quite obvious 
> why that was done.

Some more thoughts about it:

There is that new Creole wiki markup standard. Moin's new linking is 99%
creole.

MediaWiki also uses [[...]] for linking (moin is now also more similar
to MediaWiki linking than it was before).

Therefore, using something else than [[]] for the new linking markup was
out of question.

Because we used [[]] for macros, this triggered the macro markup change
to <<>>.