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diff --git a/doc/tags/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tags/discussion.mdwn index 85235e3f6..a45ecf6e2 100644 --- a/doc/tags/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/tags/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ -In another blog, I could tag a post with arbitrary words and not have to do anything else for the software to recognize it as a tag. In Ikiwiki if you want to tag something \[[tag foo]] you also have to go to tags/ and create foo.mkdn (even if it's zero-length), because "tags are links", and links don't actually *link* if they have no destination. This allows for customization of how you present different tag feeds, but this (to me) is too much work and more like a category than a tag. It'd be nice if you could tell the tag plugin "if the tag target doesn't exist in tags/*, pretend it does exist and is zero-length". -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]] +In another blog, I could tag a post with arbitrary words and not have to do +anything else for the software to recognize it as a tag. In Ikiwiki if you +want to tag something \[[tag foo]] you also have to go to tags/ and create +foo.mkdn (even if it's zero-length), because "tags are links", and links +don't actually *link* if they have no destination. This allows for +customization of how you present different tag feeds, but this (to me) is +too much work and more like a category than a tag. It'd be nice if you +could tell the tag plugin "if the tag target doesn't exist in tags/*, +pretend it does exist and is zero-length". -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]] -Never mind, I think I found the answer (or at least a pointer) [[here|plugins/tag/discussion/]]. Feel free to delete both these comments :). -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]] +Never mind, I think I found the answer (or at least a pointer) +[[here|plugins/tag/discussion/]]. Feel free to delete both these comments +:). -- [[users/Larry_Clapp]] + +> Why do you have to go create the tag? A tag (or link) pointing at a page that +> doesn't exist _does_ still exist. ikiwiki allows you to: +> +> * Create a pagespec to match pages linking to the "nonexistant" tag. +> * Click on the tag to create the tag page, like any other incomplete link. +> --[[Joey]] |