Support softlinks between questions.

[ctrabold]

It would be nice (tm) if users could link to questions, which had been ask before, eg. to avoid double-postings or to point the questioner into the right direction.

At the moment you have to copy the whole link.

[flippingbits]

How should the syntax look like?

[ctrabold]

What about making them configurable - like in Redmine.

Examples / Ideas for defaults:

• hash-symbol + id
• question:id
• qs:id
• smartr_link:id

id = ID of Smartr-Question

Example of usage:

You write: Have a look at question #1516. User sees: Have a look at question "How to configure apache".

[flippingbits]

How should the user get the question's id? Currently no id is shown on the question's page.

IMHO, the current options work very well.

[ctrabold]

First Thought: via a "Link Browser" (like TYPO3 does), where you can browse the available questions via tags or search string.

The current option makes you stick to the domain name, which leads to headaches when you want to change the domain.

How does stackoverflow handle this issue?

[flippingbits]

As I know, there is no support for linking between questions by stackoverflow.