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37 suggested in two places => useful?<br />
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50 +On [[todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template]], [[chrysn]]
53 +> Instead of creating a file that gets checked in into the RCS, the
54 +> source files could be left out and the output files be written as
55 +> long as there is no physical source file (think of a virtual underlay).
56 +> Something similar would be required to implement alias directive,
57 +> which couldn't be easily done by writing to the RCS as the page's
58 +> contents can change depending on which other pages claim it as an alias.
60 +`add_autofile` could be adapted to do this, or a similar API could be
63 +This would also be useful for autoindex, as suggested on
64 +[[plugins/autoindex/discussion]]. I'd also like to use it for
65 +[[plugins/contrib/album]].
67 +One refinement I'd suggest is that if the transient page is edited,
68 +its transient contents are evaluated and used as the initial
69 +content for the edit box; after that, it'd become a static page. --[[smcv]]
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