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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/orphans/discussion.mdwn | 9 |
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/orphans/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/orphans/discussion.mdwn index 2b2532bfe..7956f52d8 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/orphans/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/orphans/discussion.mdwn @@ -9,3 +9,12 @@ In my wiki, the page "realname" shows up as an orphan although it's being linked > reason to use other link mechanisms provided by eg, markdown for internal > links in the wiki (indeed, using them is likely to cause broken links > when doing things like inlining or renaming pages). --[[Joey]] + + +The orphans plugin fails with an error when it has to deal with a page that contains '+' characters as part of the filename. Apparently the code uses regular expressions and forgets to quote that string at some cruicial point. The error message I see is: + + \[[!orphans Error: Nested quantifiers in regex; + marked by <-- HERE in m/^(c++ <-- HERE |)$/ at + /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki/Plugin/orphans.pm line 43.]] + +--Peter |