* Improved parentlinks special case for index pages.

IkiWiki/Render.pm

@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ sub parentlinks ($) { #{{{
 	my $path="";
 	my $title=$config{wikiname};
 	
-	return if $page eq 'index'; # toplevel
 	foreach my $dir (split("/", $page)) {
+		next if $dir eq 'index';
 		push @ret, { url => urlto($path, $page), page => $title };
 		$path.="/".$dir;
 		$title=pagetitle($dir);

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ikiwiki (2.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Improved parentlinks special case for index pages.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:39:07 -0500
+
 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Major basewiki reorganisation. Most pages moved into ikiwiki/ subdirectory

doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ Some inconsistences around the toplevel [[index]] page:
 
 * [[ikiwiki]] is a separate page; links to [[ikiwiki]] should better go to
   the [[index]] though.
+
+  > At least for this wiki, I turned out to have a use for [[ikiwiki]]
+  > pointing to a different page, though the general point might still
+  > stand.
+
 * The toplevel [[ikiwiki/Discussion]] page has some weird parentlinks
   behavior. This could be special cased around with the following patch.
   However, I'm unsure if I like the idea of more special cases around this.
@@ -21,10 +26,12 @@ Here is a patch:
 	                if (! $skip) {
 	                        $path.="../";
 
+   > Came up with a better patch for this, [[done]] --[[Joey]]
+
 ---
 
 > I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case. 
 > The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar.
 > You could do this today using [[todo/index.html_allowed]], except that the toplevel 
 > page "index" becomes "", which causes all sorts of chaos. The discussion page would 
-> become /discussion, and the weird parentlinks behavior would go away. --Ethan
+> become /discussion, and the weird parentlinks behavior would go away. --Ethan