not sure whether I should name-grab 'alias' since [[todo/alias_directive]] is
an existing wishlist item.
+> I think it would make sense to have "pagespec" in the name somehow.
+>
+> No, the strict/warnings does not make me puke. Have you read my perl
+> code? :-P
+>
+> Note that your XXX is right. It would be a security hole to not validate
+> `$key`, as anyone with websetup access could cause it to run arbitrary
+> perl code.
+>
+> Well, except that websetup doesn't currently support configuring hashes
+> like used here. Which is a pity, but has led me to try to avoid using
+> such hashes in the setup file.
+>
+> Have you considered not defining the pagespec aliases in the setup file, but
+> instead as directives on pages in the wiki? Using pagestate could store
+> up the aliases that have been defined. It could however, be hard to get
+> the dependencies right; any page that uses a pagespec containing
+> an alias `foo` would need to somehow depend on the page where the alias
+> was defined. --[[Joey]]
+
Here's an example setup chunk:
pagespec_aliases:
-- [[Jon]]
+> Probably needs to be `or internal(*)` --[[Joey]]
+
> another useful pagespec alias for large maps:
basewiki: "sandbox or templates or templates/* or ikiwiki or ikiwiki/* or shortcuts or recentchanges or wikiicons/*"
> -- [[Jon]]
+
+>> Useful indeed! --[[Joey]]