[wp-hackers] WP 3.1 beta Make Internal Linking featureavailable in HTML mode too

[Andrew Nacin]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Nicolas Kuttler <
wp-hackers at nicolaskuttler.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:37:50PM +0000, William P. Davis wrote:
> > Looks like it just generates an absolute URL based on the post you
> select.
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> Indeed. Is there any reason why this wasn't done with a shortcode? A
> hardcoded link doesn't help when you
>
> - move a page
> - change a post's permalink
> - change your permalink structure
> - move a site
>
> and probably more I can't think of right now.
>
> Can somebody point me to the source, so that I can check if there is a
> filter that can be used to produce a shortcode?


A shortcode was not used. There are no plans to ever use a shortcode here.

This has been previously discussed on wp-hackers. I am pretty sure I
responded to the thread with the reasoning.