diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn index 42a1009cb..a6cb6f8bd 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ lead to making inline too big, though. > I think inline is *already* too big, honestly. --[[KathrynAndersen]] +>> A fair point; perhaps my complaint should be that *inline* does +>> too many orthogonal things. I suppose the headers feature wouldn't +>> really make sense in an inline that didn't have `archive="yes"`, +>> so it'd make sense to recommend this plugin as a replacement +>> for inlining with archive=yes (for which I now realise "inline" +>> is the wrong verb anyway :-) ) --s + Is the intention that the `trail` part is a performance hack, or a way to select pages? How does it relate to [[todo/wikitrails]] or [[plugins/contrib/trail]]? --[[smcv]] @@ -32,3 +39,18 @@ to select pages? How does it relate to [[todo/wikitrails]] or > But to avoid that being too limiting, one can use a `pages=...` pagespec to filter that list to a subset; only the pages one is interested in. > And one can also sort it, if one so desires. > --[[KathrynAndersen]] + +>> That's an interesting approach to trails; I'd missed the fact that +>> links are already ordered. +>> +>> This does have the same problems as tags, though: see +>> [[bugs/tagged()_matching_wikilinks]] and +>> [[todo/matching_different_kinds_of_links]]. I suppose the question +>> now is whether new code should be consistent with `tag` (and +>> potentially be fixed at the same time as tag itself), or try to +>> avoid those problems? +>> +>> The combination of `trail` with another pagespec in this plugin +>> does provide a neat way for it to work around having unwanted +>> pages in the report, by limiting by a suitable tag or subdirectory +>> or something. --s