ikiwiki/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn

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 "&lt;span class=\"createlink\">&lt;a href=\"".
 				cgiurl(
 					do => "create",
-					page => pagetitle(lc($link), 1),
+					page => pagetitle($link, 1),
 					from => $lpage
 				).
 				"\">?&lt;/a>$linktext&lt;/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]]