[pmwiki-users] Blog proposal

Dominique Faure dominique.faure at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 01:35:20 CST 2006


2006/1/11, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>:
> I'm not a great fan of trying to have trail pages specify their
> own format -- that becomes a real pain to manage, especially as
> they're being created automatically.  Better is to have the
> trail page simply contain a bullet list of pages, and then use
> (:pagelist:) to specify alternate formatting options.
>
> We might also come up with a (:traillist:) version of pagelist
> that reads (and removes) a trail from the current page and replaces
> it with the formatted version of that trail.  Thus the trail can
> continue to be a simple bullet list, but can be formatted on display
> using any pagelist format.

A bit OT but, I definitely vote for the (:traillist:) approach which
would greatly improve current trail implementation. One step further
to handle some merging with (:pagelist:) queries and we have a
revamped PagelistWikiTrail recipe into the core...

Regards,
Dom




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