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@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ can indirectly influence what pages a pagespec matches.
>>>> find changes in deleted pages. (I verified this works by experiment,
>>>> also that `created_after` is triggered by a deleted page.) --[[Joey]]
+>>>>> Oh, okie. I looked at the source, saw the `if (exists $IkiWiki::pagectime{$testpage})` and assumed it would fail.
+>>>>> Of course, having it succeed doesn't cure all the issues -- just moves them. With `created_before()` succeeding
+>>>>> for deleted files, this pagespec will be match any removal in the entire wiki with the base mechanism. Whether this is
+>>>>> better or worse than the longer indirect influence list is an empirical question. -- [[Will]]
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* The pagespec "foo" has an empty influence list. This is because a
modification/creation/removal of foo directly changes what the pagespec
matches.