summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--IkiWiki.pm7
-rw-r--r--basewiki/subpage/linkingrules.mdwn10
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog4
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/linkingrules_should_document_how_to_link_to_page_at_root_if_non-root_page_exists.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/latex.mdwn2
5 files changed, 11 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
index 54bb1826c..9f6c3bb1f 100644
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -298,10 +298,9 @@ sub bestlink ($$) { #{{{
my $link=shift;
my $cwd=$page;
-
- # relative links
- while ($link=~s!(^|/)\.\./!!g) {
- $cwd=~s!/?[^/]+$!!;
+ if ($link=~s/^\/+//) {
+ # absolute links
+ $cwd="";
}
do {
diff --git a/basewiki/subpage/linkingrules.mdwn b/basewiki/subpage/linkingrules.mdwn
index 1543801b3..c07a81387 100644
--- a/basewiki/subpage/linkingrules.mdwn
+++ b/basewiki/subpage/linkingrules.mdwn
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ the only way to link to an unrelated [[SubPage]].
You can use this to, for example, to link from BazBar to "FooBar/SubPage",
or from BazBar/SubPage to "FooBar/SubPage".
-You can also use ".." in a link, to specify exactly which page to link to,
-when there are multiple pages with similar names and the link goes to the
-wrong page by default. For example, linking from "FooBar/SubPage" to
-".../OtherPage" will link to the "OtherPage" in the root of the wiki, even
-if there is a "FooBar/OtherPage".
+You can also use "/" at the start of a link, to specify exactly which page
+to link to, when there are multiple pages with similar names and the link
+goes to the wrong page by default. For example, linking from
+"FooBar/SubPage" to "/OtherPage" will link to the "OtherPage" in the root
+of the wiki, even if there is a "FooBar/OtherPage".
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5c64cd84c..bc2a384df 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ ikiwiki (1.36) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
like, if you want.
* Patch from Emanuele Aina to fix modification time code in mercurual
backend.
- * Add support for links of the form [[../foo]], this links to the page
- foo a level higher in the directory hierarchy than the one it would link
- to by default.
+ * Add support for links of the form [[/foo]]
* Fix code to make absolute urls for rss feeds, was missing some urls.
* Fix double-escaping of html entities in titles etc in rss feeds
that occured if escaped characters were present in the page filename.
diff --git a/doc/bugs/linkingrules_should_document_how_to_link_to_page_at_root_if_non-root_page_exists.mdwn b/doc/bugs/linkingrules_should_document_how_to_link_to_page_at_root_if_non-root_page_exists.mdwn
index b6dd51fc7..27e07eb2e 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/linkingrules_should_document_how_to_link_to_page_at_root_if_non-root_page_exists.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/linkingrules_should_document_how_to_link_to_page_at_root_if_non-root_page_exists.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
The [[linking_rules|subpage/linkingrules]] should document how to link to a page at the root of the wiki when a normal, unadorned link would use a page of the same name further down the hierarchy. For example, how should [[todo/latex]] link to [[logo]] rather than [[todo/logo|todo/logo]]?
-> [[bugs/done]].. the syntax to use is ../logo --[[Joey]]
+> [[bugs/done]].. the syntax to use is "/logo" --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/latex.mdwn b/doc/todo/latex.mdwn
index 940145dd7..e45db3aed 100644
--- a/doc/todo/latex.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/latex.mdwn
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ How about a plugin adding a
[[preprocessor_directive|preprocessordirective]] to render some given LaTeX
as a PNG via [[debpkg dvipng]] and include the resulting image in the page?
Useful for mathematics, as well as for stuff like the LaTeX version of the
-ikiwiki [[../../logo]].
+ikiwiki [[/logo]].