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diff --git a/doc/todo/pagespec_expansions.mdwn b/doc/todo/pagespec_expansions.mdwn index f89501ab9..9915d8b3b 100644 --- a/doc/todo/pagespec_expansions.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/pagespec_expansions.mdwn @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ I can see why it might not be much of an improvement. :) --Ethan >> I don't understand.. "a/b/.." matches a/b/c but not a/b/c/d ? That doesn't >> seem natural to me at all. --Ethan +>>> Ah.. in that case, why not use "a/b/* and !a/b/*/*" ? No need for a new +>>> symbol. --[[Joey]] + OK, I took a shot at implementing the changes. I was thinking about making pagespecs relative by default but I couldn't decide whether page `foo/bar` inlining `*` should match `foo/bar/*` or `foo/*`. @@ -97,9 +100,23 @@ and you can see it work at >> clothes/pants inlines `./jeans/*` -- probably means clothes/pants/jeans >> vacation/bermuda/blog inlines `./pics/*` -- probably vacation/bermuda/pics +>>> What strikes me about your examples is that the "right thing" is +>>> utterly contect dependent. Unfortunatly, I don't think that using +>>> bestlink inside pagespec is possible. bestlinks change as pages are +>>> added/removed, and dealing with the matches of a pagespec changing when +>>> some page that is added or removed seems Hard. +>>> +>>> Since it seems we have to arbitrarily pick one of the two behaviors, I +>>> prefer the one I picked for two reasons: +>>> 1. The other behavior can be obtained easily from it, for example, +>>> use ./c/* to limit the matches to that subdir. +>>> 2. The common case is a bunch of pages in a single directory, not lots +>>> of deeply nested subdirs. +>>> --[[Joey]] + > I've committed support for ./ to ikiwiki now, based on your patch. > --[[Joey]] >> Cool! I haven't played with it yet, but looking over the patch, I see that >> you added another parameter to match_glob, which is an approach that didn't ->> occur to me. I like it, it's more flexible. --Ethan
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