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diff --git a/doc/todo/po:_rethink_pagespecs.mdwn b/doc/todo/po:_rethink_pagespecs.mdwn index 50c10c5db..ada372b0e 100644 --- a/doc/todo/po:_rethink_pagespecs.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/po:_rethink_pagespecs.mdwn @@ -9,3 +9,27 @@ default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]] > list must be restricted to pages in the master (or current?) > language, and the ones that should not. The only solution I can see > to this surprising behaviour is: documentation. --[[intrigeri]] + +>> Well, a sorting criteria might be that if a PageSpec is used +>> with a specified locaction, as happens whenever a PageSpec is +>> used on a page, then it should match only `currentlang()`. If it +>> is used without a location, as in the setup file, then no such limit. +>> +>> Note that +>> `match_currentlang` currently dies if called w/o a location -- if +>> it instead was always true w/o a location, this would just mean that +>> all pagespecs should have `and currentlang()` added to them. How to +>> implement that? All I can think of doing is wrapping +>> `pagespec_translate`. +>> +>> The only case I've found where it does make sense to match other +>> language pages is on `l10n.ikiwiki.info` when listing pages that +>> need translation. +>> +>> Otherwise, it can be documented, but that's not really enough; +>> a user who makes a site using auto-blog.setup and enables po will +>> get a really scred up blog that lists translations as separate posts +>> and needs significant work to fix. I have thought about making +>> `match_currentlang` a stub in IkiWiki, so I can use it in all +>> the PageSpecs in the example blog, but I can't say I love the idea. +>> --[[Joey]] |