I don't know whether this will be considered useful or harmful, but I got frustrated yesterday with my inability to create links to off-site resources (other web sites, email addresses, etc), and to be able to have the text of a hyperlink show anything other than the exact page name. So, modelling things after Wikipedia, I've added the following simple replacement patterns: ;; Allow pipe-separated page name and text description ("\\[\\[([^]\">|]*?)\\|([^]\">]*?)\\]\\]" . "<a href=\"\\1\">\\2</a>") ;; Standard [[ ]] wiki links ("\\[\\[(.*?)\\]\\]" . "<a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>") ;; Use single [ ] for external links. Only allow the specified protocols ("\\[(http|ftp|mailto|gopher):([^\">].*?)\\]" . "<a class=\"external \\1\" href=\"\\1:\\2\">\\1:\\2</a>") (after getting rid of *wiki-url* in links, I moved the complex wiki-linking code into simple-replace, and complex-translate does nothing) With these replacements, I can write wiki code like this: You should really read [[OtherDocument|this other thing]]. Other information is available at this site: [http://www.example.com] The addition of classes to external links let me visually distinguish them with CSS, and there is deliberately no way for someone to make an external link that looks like a wikilink, to prevent some of the more heinous forms of wiki-spam. Regards, Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>