doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn



When you click on a broken link to create a new page, Ikiwiki lower-cases the new page's filename.  I wish it wouldn't.
If I click on "Czars in Russia", I'd like Ikiwiki to create "Czars_in_Russia.mdwn", not "czars_in_russia.mdwn".  Is this possible?  --[[sabr]]

There's a simple patch that can do this:


--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ sub htmllink ($$$;@) { #{{{
return "<span class="createlink"><a href="".
cgiurl(
do => "create",


			page => pagetitle(lc($link), 1),


			page => pagetitle($link, 1),
			from => $lpage
		).
		"\">?</a>$linktext</span>"


This is fine if you don't mind mixed or randomly cased filenames getting
created. Otoh, if the link happened to start a sentence and so had its
first letter upper-cased, that might not be desired.
Of course ikiwiki's case insensative, and there are other ways
of creating pages that don't lower case them, including using the create
a page form on a blog (as was done for this page..).
I'm undecided about making the above change by default though, or about making
it a config option. Maybe it would be better to include both capitalisations
in the select list that is used to pick the name for the newly created page.
Then, which one is the default wouldn't much matter. (The non-lower cased
one would probably be the best choice.) --[[Joey]]

Either of your proposed solutions (make it the default or include both in the pop-up menu) sounds fine to me.  Which one is easier? :) --[[sabr]]