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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/ftemplate/discussion.mdwn | 15 |
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/ftemplate/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/ftemplate/discussion.mdwn index 851ccf960..eb2ec6f13 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/ftemplate/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/ftemplate/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ -Is this actually necessary? Doesn't the combination of [[plugins/template]] -with [[plugins/contrib/field]]'s `pagetemplate` hook provide the same -functionality? I suppose one missing thing is that `ftemplate` looks in +I initially thought this wasn't actually necessary - the combination +of [[plugins/template]] with [[plugins/contrib/field]]'s `pagetemplate` +hook ought to provide the same functionality. However, `template` +doesn't run `pagetemplate` hooks; a more general version of this +plugin would be to have a variant of `template` that runs `pagetemplate` +hooks (probably easiest to just patch `template` to implement a +second directive, or have a special parameter `run_hooks="yes"`, +or something). + +Another missing thing is that `ftemplate` looks in the "system" templates directories, not just in the wiki, but that -seems orthogonal (and might even be a good enhancement to `template`). +seems orthogonal (and might be a good enhancement to `template` anyway). --[[smcv]] |