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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]]
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