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| author | http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/ <http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/@web> | 2011-05-04 21:14:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-05-04 21:14:39 -0400 |
| commit | 8f8d8ec00570fefd3ea600d087b9a02713f46e43 (patch) | |
| tree | 78ad2a178a9e2ffb3386b61c4761e175671e6b19 | |
| parent | cbd4260bb13835bcc4839e533a2f740dfa84405a (diff) | |
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2c51b415a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Something which is similar to aliases is the "trail" concept I use in the [[plugins/contrib/report]] plugin. (Also my "pmap" plugin, but that's only in my "experimental" branch on github). One can define a "trail" by making a report with the "doscan" option (I should probably change the name of that) and then that page has a "trail" which matches the pagespec in that report. +Then one can reference that page as a "trail" without having to reuse that pagespec. +(It's also very useful in speeding up the processing, because the matching pages have been remembered, and one doesn't have to search for them again). + +So, for example, one could make a page "all_images" and have a report (or pmap, which is simpler) like so: + |