* Add --render mode, which can be used to preview an edit at the command

line by test rendering a single page.

IkiWiki/Render.pm

@@ -374,4 +374,29 @@ FILE:		foreach my $file (@files) {
 	}
 } #}}}
 
+sub commandline_render () { #{{{
+	loadplugins();
+	checkconfig();
+	lockwiki();
+	loadindex();
+	unlockwiki();
+
+	my $srcfile=possibly_foolish_untaint($config{render});
+	my $file=$srcfile;
+	$file=~s/\Q$config{srcdir}\E\/?//;
+
+	my $type=pagetype($file);
+	die "ikiwiki: cannot render $srcfile\n" unless defined $type;
+	my $content=readfile($srcfile);
+	my $page=pagename($file);
+	$pagesources{$page}=$file;
+	$content=filter($page, $content);
+	$content=preprocess($page, $page, $content);
+	$content=linkify($page, $page, $content);
+	$content=htmlize($page, $type, $content);
+
+	print genpage($page, $content, mtime($srcfile));
+	exit 0;
+} #}}}
+
 1

IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ sub setup_standard {
 		$config{wiki_file_prune_regexp}=qr/$config{wiki_file_prune_regexp}|$setup{exclude}/;
 	}
 
-	if (! $config{refresh} || $config{wrappers}) {
+	if (! $config{render} && (! $config{refresh} || $config{wrappers})) {
 		debug("generating wrappers..");
 		my @wrappers=@{$setup{wrappers}};
 		delete $setup{wrappers};
@@ -66,7 +66,10 @@ sub setup_standard {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (! $config{refresh}) {
+	if ($config{render}) {
+		commandline_render();
+	}
+	elsif (! $config{refresh}) {
 		$config{rebuild}=1;
 		debug("rebuilding wiki..");
 	}

debian/changelog

@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ ikiwiki (1.27) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Patch from James Westby to make the location of the estseek.cgi script
     configurable.
   * Add typography (SmartyPants) plugin by Recai.
+  * Add --render mode, which can be used to preview an edit at the command
+    line by test rendering a single page.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:27:44 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:31:25 -0400
 
 ikiwiki (1.26) unstable; urgency=low
 

doc/usage.mdwn

@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
   along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
   they were polled recently.
 
+* --render file
+
+  Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
+  so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
+  previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
+  with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
+
+	ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
+
 * --version
 
   Print ikiwiki version number.

ikiwiki.pl

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ sub getconfig () { #{{{
 			"syslog!" => \$config{syslog},
 			"rebuild!" => \$config{rebuild},
 			"refresh!" => \$config{refresh},
+			"render=s" => \$config{render},
 			"wrappers!" => \$config{wrappers},
 			"getctime" => \$config{getctime},
 			"wrappermode=i" => \$config{wrappermode},
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ sub getconfig () { #{{{
 			},
 		) || usage();
 
-		if (! $config{setup}) {
+		if (! $config{setup} && ! $config{render}) {
 			loadplugins();
 			usage() unless @ARGV == 2;
 			$config{srcdir} = possibly_foolish_untaint(shift @ARGV);
@@ -114,6 +115,10 @@ sub main () { #{{{
 		require IkiWiki::Wrapper;
 		gen_wrapper();
 	}
+	elsif ($config{render}) {
+		require IkiWiki::Render;
+		commandline_render();
+	}
 	else {
 		lockwiki();
 		loadindex();