Thoughts

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@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
   we could use an external plugin..)
 * Currently no single plugin supports both modes of operation (directive
   and whole source file to page).
+
+  > This is now fixed by the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive for all
+  > whole-source-file plugins, right?
+
 * Nothing seems to support 
   [[wiki-formatted_comments|wiki-formatted_comments_with_syntax_plugin]]
   inside source files. Doing this probably means post-processing the 
@@ -45,6 +49,17 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
   One approach that's also been requested for eg,
   [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] is to allow controlling which linkification
   types a page type can have on it.
+
+  > The previous two points seem to be related.  One thought: instead of
+  > getting the source from the `content` parameter, the plugin could
+  > re-load the page source.  That would stop directives/links from
+  > being processed in the source.  As noted above, comments
+  > could then be parsed for directives/links later.
+  >
+  > Would it be worth adding a `nodirectives` option when registering
+  > an htmlize hook that switches off directive and link processing before
+  > generating the html for a page?
+
 * The whole-file plugins all get confused if there is a `foo.c` and a `foo.h`.
   This is trivially fixable now by passing the keepextension option when
   registering the htmlize hooks, though.
@@ -61,6 +76,11 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
   extensions. The workaround is to use a directive on a wiki page, pulling
   in the Makefile.
 
+  > I wonder how hard it would be to make a patch where by a file with
+  > no `.` in the name, and a name that matches a filetype, and where
+  > that filetype was registered `keepextension`, then the file is just
+  > chosen as the appropriate type...
+
 ## format directive
 
 Rather than making syntax highlight plugins have to provide a preprocessor