>> I've made may not be acceptable, though -- I'd appreciate someone providing
>> some feedback on that hunk!
-<code>
-[[!inline pages="current-patch" raw=yes quick=yes]]
-</code>
+ diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+ index 6fe9cda..2f8c098 100644
+ --- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+ +++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+ @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ sub import {
+ hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "meta", call => \&needsbuild);
+ hook(type => "preprocess", id => "meta", call => \&preprocess, scan => 1);
+ hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "meta", call => \&pagetemplate);
+ + hook(type => "scan", id => "meta", call => \&scan)
+ + if $config{"meta_defaults"};
+ }
+
+ sub getsetup () {
+ @@ -305,6 +307,15 @@ sub match {
+ }
+ }
+
+ +sub scan() {
+ + my %params = @_;
+ + my $page = $params{page};
+ + foreach my $default (@{$config{"meta_defaults"}}) {
+ + preprocess(%$default, page => $page,
+ + destpage => $page, preview => 0);
+ + }
+ +}
+ +
+ package IkiWiki::PageSpec;
+
+ sub match_title ($$;@) {
+ diff --git a/IkiWiki/Setup.pm b/IkiWiki/Setup.pm
+ index 8a25ecc..e4d50c9 100644
+ --- a/IkiWiki/Setup.pm
+ +++ b/IkiWiki/Setup.pm
+ @@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ sub merge ($) {
+ $config{$c}=$setup{$c};
+ }
+ else {
+ - $config{$c}=[map { IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($_) } @{$setup{$c}}]
+ + $config{$c}=[map {
+ + if(ref $_ eq 'HASH') {
+ + $_
+ + } else {
+ + IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($_)
+ + }
+ + } @{$setup{$c}}];
+ }
+ }
+ elsif (ref $setup{$c} eq 'HASH') {
+ diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+ index 000f461..8d34ee4 100644
+ --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+ +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+ @@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ also specifies some additional sub-parameters.
+ The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
+ a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.
+
+ +You can also define site-wide defaults for meta values by including them
+ +in your setup file. The key used is `meta_defaults` and the value is a list
+ +of hashes, one per meta directive. e.g.:
+ +
+ + meta_defaults = [
+ + { copyright => "Copyright 2007 by Joey Hess" },
+ + { license => "GPL v2+" },
+ + { link => "somepage", rel => "site entrypoint", },
+ + ],
+ +
+ Supported fields:
+
+ * title
- -- [[Jon]]
+-- [[Jon]]
+
+>> Ok, I've had a bit of a think about this. There are currently 15 supported
+>> meta fields. Of these: title, licence, copyright, author, authorurl,
+>> and robots might make sense to define globally and override on a per-page
+>> basis.
+>>
+>> Less so, description (due to its impact on map); openid (why would
+>> someone want more than one URI to act as an openid endpoint to the same
+>> place?); updated. I can almost see why someone might want to set a global
+>> updated value. Almost.
+>>
+>> Not useful are permalink, date, stylesheet (you already have a global
+>> stylesheet), link, redir, and guid.
+>>
+>> In other words, the limitations of my first patch that [[smcv]] outlined
+>> are only relevant to defined fields that you wouldn't want to specify a
+>> global default for anyway.
+>>
+>> Due to this, and the added complexity of the second patch (having to adjust
+>> `IkiWiki/Setup.pm`), I think the first patch makes more sense. I've thus
+>> reverted to it here.
+>>
+>> Is this merge-worthy?
+
+ diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+ index b229592..3132257 100644
+ --- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+ +++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+ @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ sub import {
+ hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "meta", call => \&needsbuild);
+ hook(type => "preprocess", id => "meta", call => \&preprocess, scan => 1);
+ hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "meta", call => \&pagetemplate);
+ + hook(type => "scan", id => "meta", call => \&scan);
+ }
+
+ sub getsetup () {
+ @@ -302,6 +303,15 @@ sub match {
+ }
+ }
+
+ +sub scan() {
+ + my %params = @_;
+ + my $page = $params{page};
+ + foreach my $type (map { s/^meta_//; $_ } grep /^meta_/, keys %config) {
+ + $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$type} = $config{"meta_$type"}
+ + unless defined $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$type};
+ + }
+ +}
+ +
+ package IkiWiki::PageSpec;
+
+ sub match_title ($$;@) {
+ diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+ index 000f461..200c4b2 100644
+ --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+ +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+ @@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ also specifies some additional sub-parameters.
+ The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
+ a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.
+
+ +You can also define site-wide defaults for meta values by including them
+ +in your setup file, e.g.
+ +
+ + meta_copyright => "Copyright 2007 by Joey Hess",
+ + meta_license => "GPL v2+",
+ +
+ Supported fields:
+
+ * title
+
+-- [[Jon]]