doc/todo/pagespec_expansions.mdwn



A couple of suggestions for improving the usefulness of pagespecs:

@ to match [^/]* (i.e. all pages exactly one level below this one)
initial ./ to mean "from the page the pagespec is running from".
This would require some architectural changes and a change to the
interface for pagespec_match. What do you think? I have
lots of pages a/b/c.mdwn that inline "a/b/c/*".

--Ethan

I want this too, so that the [[examples]] can use pagespecs that don't
have to be changed when the pages are moved around. I don't know how I
feel about the "@" thing, but "./" seems good. I take it you've looked at
how to implement it?
It's worth mentioning that there's a bit of an inconsistency; wikilinks
match relative by default and absolute if prefixed with a "/", while
pagespecs match absolute by default. It would be nice to clear up that
inconsistency somehow, it's on my little list of things in ikiwiki that
arn't ideal. :-) --[[Joey]]