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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn index fc1759fab..4bb285a50 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ with IkiWiki's use of `<TMPL_VAR AUTHOR>` for the author of the *page* `<TMPL_VAR FIELD_AUTHOR>` or something? (For those who want the current behaviour, an auxiliary plugin would be easy.) +> No, please. The idea is to be *able* to override field names if one wishes to, and choose, for yourself, non-colliding field names if one wishes not to. I don't wish to lose the power of being able to, say, define a page title with YAML format if I want to, or to write a site-specific plugin which calculates a page title, or other nifty things. +>It's not like one is going to lose the fields defined by the meta plugin; if "author" is defined by \[[!meta author=...]] then that's what will be found by "field" (provided the "meta" plugin is registered; that's what the "field_register" option is for). +>--[[KathrynAndersen]] + From a coding style point of view, the `$CamelCase` variable names aren't IkiWiki style, and the `match_foo` functions look as though they could benefit from being thin wrappers around a common `&IkiWiki::Plugin::field::match` @@ -17,6 +21,8 @@ function (see `meta` for a similar approach). I think the documentation would probably be clearer in a less manpage-like and more ikiwiki-like style? +> I don't think ikiwiki *has* a "style" for docs, does it? So I followed the Perl Module style. And I'm rather baffled as to why having the docs laid out in clear sections... make them less clear. --[[KathrynAndersen]] + If one of my branches from [[todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods]] is accepted, a `field()` cmp type would mean that [[plugins/contrib/report]] can stop reimplementing sorting. Here's the implementation I'm using, with |