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[[!template id=plugin name=toggle author="[[Enrico]]"]] [[!tag type/chrome]]

With this plugin you can store and recall pieces of text. It defines three preprocessing commands:

  • \[[!cut id=name text="text"]] memorizes the text allowing to recall it using the given ID. The text being cut is not included in the output.
  • \[[!copy id=name text="text"]] memorizes the text allowing to recall it using the given ID. The text being cut is included in the output.
  • \[[!paste id=name]] is replaced by the previously memorized text.

The text being cut, copied and pasted can freely include wiki markup, including more calls to cut, copy and paste.

You do not need to memorize the text before using it: a cut directive can follow the paste directive that uses its text. In fact, this is quite useful to postpone big blocks of text like long annotations and have a more natural flow. For example:

This plugin provides three directives:

 * \[[!toggle id="cut" text="cut"]] that cuts text
 * \[[!toggle id="copy" text="copy"]] that copies text
 * \[[!toggle id="paste" text="paste"]] that pastes text

\[[!toggleable id="cut" text="\[[!paste id=cutlongdesc]]"]]
\[[!toggleable id="copy" text="\[[!paste id=copylongdesc]]"]]
\[[!toggleable id="paste" text="\[[!paste id=pastelongdesc]]"]]

\[...some time later...]

\[[!cut id=cutlongdesc text="""
   blah blah blah
"""]]
\[[!cut id=copylongdesc text="""
   blah blah blah
"""]]
\[[!cut id=pastelongdesc text="""
   blah blah blah
"""]]

This can potentially be used to create loops, but ikiwiki is clever and breaks them.

Since you can paste without using double quotes, copy and paste can be used to nest directive that require multiline parameters inside each other:

\[[!toggleable id=foo text="""
  \[[!toggleable id=bar text="\[[!paste id=baz]]"]]
"""]]

\[[!cut id=baz text="""
multiline parameter!
"""]]