turn on tag_autocreate by default if tagbase is set

4 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm
index cd7ecc212..62f030f4e 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sub getsetup () {
 		},
 		tag_autocreate => {
 			type => "boolean",
-			example => 0,
+			example => 1,
 			description => "autocreate new tag pages?",
 			safe => 1,
 			rebuild => undef,
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ sub htmllink_tag ($$$;@) {
 sub gentag ($) {
 	my $tag=shift;
 
-	if ($config{tag_autocreate}) {
+	if ($config{tag_autocreate} ||
+	    ($config{tagbase} && ! defined $config{tag_autocreate})) {
 		my $tagpage=taglink($tag);
 		if ($tagpage=~/^\.\/(.*)/) {
 			$tagpage=$1;
diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 9fd882ad2..8b87bc601 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ ikiwiki (3.20100406) unstable; urgency=low
   not regular wikilinks. If your wiki accidentially relied on the old,
   buggy behavior, you might need to change pagespecs to use `link()`.
 
+  Tag pages can automatically be created as new tags are used. This
+  feature is enabled by default if you have configured a tagbase. It
+  can be turned on or off using the `tag_autocreate` setting.
+
   The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
   have been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
   by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/tag.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/tag.mdwn
index 807a96f25..c8d9b9816 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/tag.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/tag.mdwn
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ instead:
 Note that if the wiki is configured to use a tagbase, then the tags will be
 located under a base directory, such as "tags/". This is a useful way to
 avoid having to write the full path to tags, if you want to keep them
-grouped together out of the way.
+grouped together out of the way. Also, since ikiwiki then knows where to put
+tags, it will automatically create tag pages when new tags are used.
 
 Bear in mind that specifying a tagbase means you will need to incorporate it
 into the `link()` [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] you use: e.g., if your tagbase is
diff --git a/doc/plugins/tag.mdwn b/doc/plugins/tag.mdwn
index bdf39d7e8..8e1286e62 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/tag.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/tag.mdwn
@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@ These directives allow tagging pages.
 It also provides the `tagged()` [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], which can be used to
 match pages that are tagged with a specific tag.
 
-If the `tag_autocreate` setting is enabled, tag pages will automatically be
-created as needed.
+The `tagbase` setting can be used to make tags default to being put in a
+particular subdirectory.
+
+The `tag_autocreate` setting can be used to control whether new tag pages
+are created as needed. It defaults to being done only if a `tagbase` is
+set.
 
 [[!if test="enabled(tag)" then="""
 This wiki has the tag plugin enabled, so you'll see a note below that this