From 587d5dc8748b3a39d00f107070f1d13a50e81547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DataComputist Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 14:04:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...w_to_use_multiple_template_files_directories__63__.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/How_to_use_multiple_template_files_directories__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_use_multiple_template_files_directories__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_to_use_multiple_template_files_directories__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..45724ba82 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_use_multiple_template_files_directories__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +For an ikiwiki source directory, I already have multiple paths for storing template files: + +1. /opt/pkg/share/ikiwiki/templates/*.tmpl which came to be as a result of installing ikiwiki via pkgsrc on macOS; +2. /Users/XXX/config/ikiwiki/templatedir/, a manually created directory for storing *.tmpl files potentially modified by myself but intended to use for all my ikiwiki sites; +3. /Ysers/XXX/mywiki-srcdir/templates/*.tmpl, which according to https://ikiwiki.info/usage/ is another option to store template files. I intend to store template files potentially modified and only suitable for the particular instance 'mywiki-srcdir'. + +I want all three paths to be usable for compiling mywiki-scrdir but want 3 be the default, which should fall back to 2 if a file is missing, which in turn should fall back to 1, if a file is missing.