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Joey Hess 2010-09-13 15:11:46 -04:00
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@ -9,3 +9,27 @@ default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]]
> list must be restricted to pages in the master (or current?)
> language, and the ones that should not. The only solution I can see
> to this surprising behaviour is: documentation. --[[intrigeri]]
>> Well, a sorting criteria might be that if a PageSpec is used
>> with a specified locaction, as happens whenever a PageSpec is
>> used on a page, then it should match only `currentlang()`. If it
>> is used without a location, as in the setup file, then no such limit.
>>
>> Note that
>> `match_currentlang` currently dies if called w/o a location -- if
>> it instead was always true w/o a location, this would just mean that
>> all pagespecs should have `and currentlang()` added to them. How to
>> implement that? All I can think of doing is wrapping
>> `pagespec_translate`.
>>
>> The only case I've found where it does make sense to match other
>> language pages is on `l10n.ikiwiki.info` when listing pages that
>> need translation.
>>
>> Otherwise, it can be documented, but that's not really enough;
>> a user who makes a site using auto-blog.setup and enables po will
>> get a really scred up blog that lists translations as separate posts
>> and needs significant work to fix. I have thought about making
>> `match_currentlang` a stub in IkiWiki, so I can use it in all
>> the PageSpecs in the example blog, but I can't say I love the idea.
>> --[[Joey]]