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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..351c2c1a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +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: + +<pre> +-- 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>" +</pre> + +> 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]] + +>>> [[Done]]; it now defaults to the mixed case title and provides +>>> the lower-case one as an option in the select box. --[[Joey]] |