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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-04-12 17:19:32 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-04-12 17:19:32 -0400
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When you click on a broken link to create a new page, Ikiwiki lower-cases the new page's filename. I wish it wouldn't.
If I click on "Czars in Russia", I'd like Ikiwiki to create "Czars\_in\_Russia.mdwn", not "czars\_in\_russia.mdwn". Is this possible? --[[sabr]]
+
+> There's a simple patch that can do this:
+
+> --- a/IkiWiki.pm
+> +++ b/IkiWiki.pm
+> @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ sub htmllink ($$$;@) { #{{{
+> return "<span class=\"createlink\"><a href=\"".
+> cgiurl(
+> do => "create",
+> - page => pagetitle(lc($link), 1),
+> + page => pagetitle($link, 1),
+> from => $lpage
+> ).
+> "\">?</a>$linktext</span>"
+
+> This is fine if you don't mind mixed or randomly cased filenames getting
+> created. Otoh, if the link happened to start a sentence and so had its
+> first letter upper-cased, that might not be desired.
+>
+> Of course ikiwiki's case insensative, and there are other ways
+> of creating pages that don't lower case them, including using the create
+> a page form on a blog (as was done for this page..).
+>
+> I'm undecided about making the above change by default though, or about making
+> it a config option. Maybe it would be better to include both capitalisations
+> in the select list that is used to pick the name for the newly created page.
+> Then, which one is the default wouldn't much matter. (The non-lower cased
+> one would probably be the best choice.) --[[Joey]]