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diff --git a/doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn b/doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7ec95b536 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/edittemplate_should_support_uuid__44___date_variables.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!tag wishlist patch]] + +I use a default template for all new pages: + + \[[!meta title="<TMPL_VAR name>"]] + \[[!meta author=]] + \[[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR time>"]] + \[[!meta guid="urn:uuid:<TMPL_VAR uuid>"]] + \[[!tag ]] + +This encourages me to include useful metadata on the page. In particular, though, I've modified the `edittemplate` plugin to generate a uuid for use in the guid, for use in `inline`. Importantly, this keeps `inline` from flooding aggregators when I rename these pages. + +I've also noticed that IkiWiki seems to use the creation time for the generated page for the page date. This means that when I do a rebuild, `inline`d pages get shuffled. The inclusion of a `time` variable in `edittemplate` (and in a `meta` declaration for all such pages) prevents the date from changing unexpectedly. + +I've already made these changes in my installation, and have made my patches available in the `edittemplate` branch of git://civilfritz.net/ikiwiki.git. + +Changes to the structure of `$pagestate{$registering_page}{edittemplate}{$pagespec}` mean that a `cgi` rebuild is necessary (for reasons I don't entirely understand); but I think that's preferable to creating an entirely separate `$pagestate` namespace for storing parameters. That said, I'm not really a perl programmer, so corrections are welcome. + +> I like this patch. I hate seeing things I've already read get marked as unread in my rss feed. -- [[JoshBBall]] |