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diff --git a/doc/todo/paste_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/paste_plugin.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..83384a8d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/paste_plugin.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +It was suggested that using ikiwiki as an alternative to pastebin services +could be useful, especially if you want pastes to not expire and be +cloneable. + +All you really need is a special purpose ikiwiki instance that you commit +to by git. But a web interface for pasting could also be nice. + +There could be a directive that inserts a paste form onto a page. The form +would have a big textarea for pasting into, and might also have a file +upload button (for uploading instead of pasting). It could also copy the +page edit form's dropdown of markup types, which would be especially useful +if using the highlight plugin to support programming languages. The default +should probably be txt, not mdwn, if the txt plugin is enabled. + +(There's a lot of overlap between that and editpage of course .. similar +to the overlap between the comment form and editpage.) + +When posted, the form would just come up with a new, numeric subpage +of the page it appears on, and save the paste there. + +Another thing that might be useful is a "copy" (or "paste as new") action +on the action bar. This would take an existing paste and copy it into the +paste edit form, for editing and saving under a new id. + +--- + +A sample wiki configuration using this might be: + +* enable highlight and txt +* enable anonok so anyone can paste; lock anonymous users down to only + creating new pastes, not editing other pages +* disable modification of existing pastes (how? disabling editpage would + work, but that would disallow setting up anonymous git push) +* enable comments, so that each paste can be commented on +* enable getsource, so the source to a paste can easily be downloaded +* optionally, enable untrusted git push |