[Pmwiki-users] Final hurdles to 2.0

[Knut Alboldt]

At 18:02 19.10.2004, you wrote:

>Hello, all --
>
>As we get closer to an official release of PmWiki 2.0, there are a
>couple of final issues that need to be examined, and if there are
>going to be any major changes then now is the time to make them.

Happy to hear that !

>I'll frame the issues as succinctly as I can.
>
>1.  Directive syntax
>
>Many international users have complained that the [:directive:] syntax
>is very difficult to type and needs to be replaced.  The latest proposal
>to win any support was to switch to using (:directive:) instead, and
>discussion yielded only one "sympathy vote" in favor of [:directive:].
>So, this is the "final call" for anyone to speak out in favor of 
>[:directive:],
>otherwise I'm going to make the switch to (:directive:) and be done
>with it.

Sounds even better, the last days I entered a lot of directives and it was 
a bit of a pain with the german keyboard. But anyway, the solutions to 
change it after editing using a markup would be ok for me too.

>And I still feel that {$Page} is too ambiguous--it needs to be clearer
>somehow that what the author is getting is the page's un-group-qualified name
>and not some other aspect of the page.
>
>Some ideas:
>    group:
>       {$Group}, {$PageGroup}, {$GroupName}
>    simple name:
>       {$Name}, {$PageName}, {$SimpleName} (too long), {$Page} (too 
> ambiguous),
>       {$Topic}, {$Sheet}, {$Leaf}, {$Base}, {$BaseName}
>    full group+name:
>       {$Path}, {$PagePath}, {$FullPath}, {$FullName}, {$FullPageName},
>       {$PageName}

What about (group, simple name , full group+name):

$GroupName, $PageName, $GroupPageName
   or
$GroupOnly, $PageOnly, $GroupPage / $GroupAndPage
   or
$Group, $Page (with the caveat mentioned above), $GroupPage

I would not prefer any $Path - that reminds too much on directory-values

Knut

btw: $SimpleName is as long as $GroupName, isn't it ;-)