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diff --git a/doc/todo/alias_directive.mdwn b/doc/todo/alias_directive.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4d7817694 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/alias_directive.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +An alias directive could work like an inverse redirect, but in a more +maintainable way. Currently, a page might have several redirects leading to it, +without an easy way of enumerating them. Therefore, the following directive is +suggested for addition (possibly by means of a plugin): + +> The `alias` and `aliastext` directives implicitly create +> redirect pages to the page they are used on. If two or more pages claim a +> non-existing page to be an alias, a disambiguation page will automatically +> generated. If an existing page is claimed as an alias, it will be prefixed +> with a note that its topic is also an alias for other pages. +> +> All aliases to a page are automatically listed below the backlink and tag +> lists at the bottom of a page by default. This can be configured globally by +> setting the `alias_list` configuration option to `false`, or set explicitly +> per alias by specifying `list=true` or `list=false`. +> +> Similar to the `taglink` directive, `aliastext` produces the alias name as +> well as registering it. +> +> ## Usage example +> +> `Greece.mdwn`: +> +> > Greece, also known as \[[!aliastext Hellas]] and officially the +> > \[[!aliastext "Hellenic Republic"]], is a … +> > +> > <!-- there are so many people who misspell this, let's create a redirect --> +> > \[[!alias Grece list=false]] +> +> This page by itself will redirect from the "Hellas" and "Hellenic Republic" +> pages as if they both contained just: +> +> > \[[!meta redir="Greece"]] +> +> If, on the other hand, `Hellas Planitia` also claims `[[!alias Hellas]]`, the +> Hellas page will look like this: +> +> > **Hellas** is an alias for the following pages: +> > +> > * \[[Greece]] +> > * \[[Hellas Planitia]] + +The proposed plugin/directive could be extended, eg. by also including +old-style redirects in the alias list, but that might introduce unwanted +coupling with the meta directive. + +[[!tag wishlist]] |