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authorJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-09-15 16:24:50 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-09-15 16:24:50 -0400
commit884835ce1cd3b1ba24d6f6bb19786d04e6b8ae90 (patch)
treed98d0960e513edb31f6cd9fa1fe15b04f61a6303 /doc
parent0e89f374a6728e76b512d00224eb9a9455ed7939 (diff)
cutpaste: Fix bug that occured in some cases involving inlines when text was pasted on a page before being cut.
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@@ -24,3 +24,23 @@ This error shows up only for *news.html*, but not in *news/2010-07-31* or for
the aggregation in *index.html* or its RSS and atom files.
--[[tschwinge]]
+
+> So the cutpaste plugin, in order to support pastes
+> that come before the corresponding cut in the page,
+> relies on the scan hook being called for the page
+> before it is preprocessed.
+>
+> In the case of an inline, this doesn't happen, if
+> the page in question has not changed.
+>
+> Really though it's not just inline, it's potentially anything
+> that preprocesses content. None of those things guarantee that
+> scan gets re-run on it first.
+>
+> I think cutpaste is going beyond the intended use of scan hooks,
+> which is to gather link information, not do arbitrary data collection.
+> Requiring scan be run repeatedly could be a lot more work.
+>
+> Using `%pagestate` to store the cut content when scanning would be
+> one way to fix this bug. It would mean storing potentially big chunks
+> of page content in the indexdb. --[[Joey]]