This [[patch]] adds a space before the forward-slash in the the parent links. There is already a space after the slash.

> I intentionally put the space after the slash and not before, because I
> like how it looks that way. So I don't plan to apply this patch unless a
> lot of people disagree with me or whatever. --[[Joey]]

>> Couldn't we export what's put between the links to a variable? For instance, I might actually want to set it to ' : ' or '→'. --[[madduck]]

>>> Yes, please.  This seems to be something a lot of people want to customize.  (I certainly do -- a forward slash only looks natural to Unix users)  --[[sabr]]

>> Joey, would I be right to summarize your position on this as "people who
>> want to change the text of the templates should maintain their own version
>> of the `.tmpl` files"? It's not clear to me how this todo item could be
>> closed in a way acceptable to you, except perhaps as WONTFIX. --[[smcv]]

Before:

    ikiwiki/ todo/ Add space before slash in parent links

After:

    ikiwiki / todo / Add space before slash in parent links

Patch:

    diff --git a/templates/misc.tmpl b/templates/misc.tmpl
    index 184920e..80e6d0b 100644
    --- a/templates/misc.tmpl
    +++ b/templates/misc.tmpl
    @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@

     <div class="header">
     <span>
    -<TMPL_VAR INDEXLINK>/ <TMPL_VAR TITLE>
    +<TMPL_VAR INDEXLINK> / <TMPL_VAR TITLE>
     </span>
     </div>

    diff --git a/templates/page.tmpl b/templates/page.tmpl
    index 3a1ac9e..1978e93 100644
    --- a/templates/page.tmpl
    +++ b/templates/page.tmpl
    @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     <div class="header">
     <span>
     <TMPL_LOOP NAME="PARENTLINKS">
    -<a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME=URL>"><TMPL_VAR NAME=PAGE></a>/
    +<a href="<TMPL_VAR NAME=URL>"><TMPL_VAR NAME=PAGE></a> /
     </TMPL_LOOP>
     <TMPL_VAR TITLE>
     </span>
    diff --git a/templates/recentchanges.tmpl b/templates/recentchanges.tmpl
    index e03482f..4877395 100644
    --- a/templates/recentchanges.tmpl
    +++ b/templates/recentchanges.tmpl
    @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@

     <div class="header">
     <span>
    -<TMPL_VAR INDEXLINK>/ <TMPL_VAR TITLE>
    +<TMPL_VAR INDEXLINK> / <TMPL_VAR TITLE>
     </span>
     </div>

----

It's almost implicit in some of the discussion above but this can be achieved locally if you fork your templates directory from ikiwiki's, with an ammendment such as

    <h1><TMPL_LOOP NAME="PARENTLINKS"><a
        href="<TMPL_VAR NAME=URL>"><TMPL_VAR NAME=PAGE></a>
        &rarr;
        </TMPL_LOOP><TMPL_VAR TITLE></h1>

This is what I do on my site for example. -- [[Jon]]

> You don't actually need to fork the whole directory, "only" `page.tmpl` -
> put `templatedir => "/foo/templates"` in your setup file, copy `page.tmpl`
> to that directory, and modify it there. IkiWiki will look in `templatedir`
> first, then fall back to its default templates if any are missing from
> `templatedir`.
>
> (Admittedly, `page.tmpl` is the hardest to maintain a fork of, because it
> tends to change whenever a new plugin is added...) --[[smcv]]
