anna.h.bauer wrote:

Yes, it is inconvenient to change the way of adding comments. But it is not
acceptable not to be able to do links to sections in articles.

jan-ake wrote:

quick and dirty fix for using # to link to a section in an article

The # seems to be removed when you use escapeLocalURL() but not when you use
escapeFullURL(). Bug or on purpose in escapeLocalURL() ?

Attached:

Fixed with r21299 by adding getFragmentForURL()

Please note, that r21299 will fix links like [[Page#section]].

Links like [[Page#{{PAGENAME}}]] are still not possible, this is bug 2257:
Template parameters unavailable to parser hooks

dherding wrote:

Instead of adding workarounds: What about my proposal to get rid of the #
comment syntax altogether, to make the comment syntax more consistent and thus
understandable?

This patch is not a workaround. It solves the problem with links to sections.
Links like [[Page#{{PAGENAME}}]] are a complete different problem, nothing to do
with any kind of comment style.

Any line with '#' as _first_ character is filtered out at start of parsing the
<imagemap> section.

The fix looks kind of lame to me; IMHO the fix belongs upstream in
Title::getLocalURL().

Some other code would have to be modified to avoid double-fragments, though, and
there might be some other issues, so it should be checked.

Title::getLocalURL()/escapeLocalURL is described explicitly with "Get a URL with
no fragment or server name."

We could use Title::getFullURL()/escapeFullURL instead: "Get an HTML-escaped
version of the URL form, suitable for using in a link, including the server name
and fragment"

Should we? It works, have tested. Double-fragment seems to be no problem in both
variants, the second # in a link will be urlencoded.

Yes but that makes no sense. Why the hell would we ever want the url *with* the
path but *without* the fragment? The documentation was probably added after.

ayg wrote:

*** Bug 9885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***