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diff --git a/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn b/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn index 90137f4b2..d766db2b4 100644 --- a/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn @@ -19,3 +19,25 @@ Some inconsistences around the toplevel [[index]] page: if (! $skip) { $path.="../"; +--- + +> I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case. +> The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar. +> This makes some things more elegant: +> +> * All files having to do with foo/bar are in the foo/bar directory, rather +> than the (admittedly minor) wart of having the index be in foo/. +> * This sort of addresses [[bugs/broken_parentlinks]] in that example/ is +> guaranteed to be a valid path. (There might be no index there, though.) +> * This is more in line with standard HTML practice, as far as I understand it, +> namely that linking to a/b means a/b/index.html rather than a/b.html. +> +> This would change the inline plugin in strange ways -- I think if foo/index.html +> contains \[[inline "* and !*/Discussion"]], it should skip inlining foo/index.html +> explicitly, but would inline index pages in child directories +> foo/bar/baz/index.html as bar/baz. +> +> It always bothers me that foo/bar/ files need a foo/bar.html in front of them, +> rather than a foo/bar/index.html, as is (to my mind) traditional. +> +> Ethan
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