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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/links_misparsed_in_CSV_files.mdwn | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/table_external_file_links.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/links_misparsed_in_CSV_files.mdwn b/doc/bugs/links_misparsed_in_CSV_files.mdwn index 169c070e7..4dae4aeab 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/links_misparsed_in_CSV_files.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/links_misparsed_in_CSV_files.mdwn @@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ Oh, wait, I see the problem. IkiWiki::linkify is only called if the external fil (this is inside /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/table.pm). +> To reproduce this bug, I had to install the old, broken markdown 1.0, +> instead of the now-default Text::Markdown. +> +> Why is linkify not called for external files? Well, I checked the +> history, and it's probably best to say "for historical reasons that no +> longer apply". + I am rather confused what this check does, and the fact the comments are very different for CSV and DSV when the code is the same doesn't seem to help. +> The code is not the same; two operations are run in different orders for +> CSV and DSV, as the comments note. --[[Joey]] + -- Brian May diff --git a/doc/bugs/table_external_file_links.mdwn b/doc/bugs/table_external_file_links.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f86808c77 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/table_external_file_links.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +If wikilinks are put in an external table file, those links are not seen at +scan time, and so ikiwiki does not know to update the page containing the +table when the pages the links point to change (are added, removed, etc). + +There seem only two solutions to that bug -- either really make wikilinks +in an external table file not work (probably by escaping them), +or run the preprocess code also in scan (expensive!). --[[Joey]] |