batch process WAS Re: [pmwiki-users] RecentChanges : AuthorGroup

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:29:37AM -0400, Radu wrote:
> At 06:42 AM 7/22/2005, Hans wrote:
> >Recentchanges and AllRecentChanges only adds lines of new changed
> >pages. The older ones are staying in the page. you can manually edit
> >these, if you wish.
> 
> Huh. I don't envy the person who whould have to do this consistently.

I don't think anyone would have to do it consistently; it would
only have to be done whenever $AuthorGroup is changed.  However,
perhaps another solution is to change the RecentChanges lines to
read

    * [[$Group/$Name]]  . . . $CurrentTime $[by] [[~$Author]]

and have [[~]] automatically render as a non-linked '?' or 'anonymous'
or something else suitable.  That seems much better to me than what 
$AuthorLink is currently doing.

> Does anyone know what the status is on the plans to add a tool for 
> batch processing the content of wiki.d in a safe way?

It's going to be a cookbook recipe based upon the (:pagelist:)
directive.

Pm