diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn index 4bb285a50..7e94a4029 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn @@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ behaviour, an auxiliary plugin would be easy.) >It's not like one is going to lose the fields defined by the meta plugin; if "author" is defined by \[[!meta author=...]] then that's what will be found by "field" (provided the "meta" plugin is registered; that's what the "field_register" option is for). >--[[KathrynAndersen]] +>> Hmm. I suppose if you put the title (or whatever) in the YAML, then +>> "almost" all the places in IkiWiki that respect titles will do the +>> right thing due to the pagetemplate hook, with the exception being +>> anything that has special side-effects inside `meta` (like `date`), +>> or anything that looks in `$pagestate{foo}{meta}` directly +>> (like `map`). Is your plan that `meta` should register itself by +>> default, and `map` and friends should be adapted to +>> work based on `getfield()` instead of `$pagestate{foo}{meta}`, then? +>> +>> (On the site I mentioned, I'm using an unmodified version of `field`, +>> and currently working around the collision by tagging books' pages +>> with `bookauthor` instead of `author` in the YAML.) --s + From a coding style point of view, the `$CamelCase` variable names aren't IkiWiki style, and the `match_foo` functions look as though they could benefit from being thin wrappers around a common `&IkiWiki::Plugin::field::match` @@ -23,13 +36,20 @@ and more ikiwiki-like style? > I don't think ikiwiki *has* a "style" for docs, does it? So I followed the Perl Module style. And I'm rather baffled as to why having the docs laid out in clear sections... make them less clear. --[[KathrynAndersen]] +>> I keep getting distracted by the big shouty headings :-) +>> I suppose what I was really getting at was that when this plugin +>> is merged, its docs will end up split between its plugin +>> page, [[plugins/write]] and [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]; on some of the +>> contrib plugins I've added I've tried to separate the docs +>> according to how they'll hopefully be laid out after merge. --s + If one of my branches from [[todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods]] is accepted, a `field()` cmp type would mean that [[plugins/contrib/report]] can stop reimplementing sorting. Here's the implementation I'm using, with your "sortspec" concept (a sort-hook would be very similar): if merged, I think it should just be part of `field` rather than a separate plugin. - # Copyright © 2010 Simon McVittie, released under GNU LGPL >= 2.1 + # Copyright © 2010 Simon McVittie, released under GNU GPL >= 2 package IkiWiki::Plugin::fieldsort; use warnings; use strict;