## Function injection
-Some parts of ikiwiki are extensible by adding functions. For example, the
-RCS interface relies on plugins providing several IkiWiki::rcs_* functions.
+Some parts of ikiwiki are extensible by adding or overriding functions.
It's actually possible to do this from an external plugin too.
-To make your external plugin provide an `IkiWiki::rcs_update` function, for
+To make your external plugin override the `IkiWiki::formattime` function, for
example, make an RPC call to `inject`. Pass it named parameters "name" and
"call", where "name" is the name of the function to inject into perl (here
-"Ikiwiki::rcs_update" and "call" is the RPC call ikiwiki will make whenever
+"Ikiwiki::formattime" and "call" is the RPC call ikiwiki will make whenever
that function is run.
If the RPC call is memoizable, you can also pass a "memoize" parameter, set
are called generally rarely, and pass around minimal data.
External plugins should avoid making RPC calls unnecessarily (ie, in a loop).
-Memorizing the results of appropriate RPC calls is one good way to minimize the
+Memoizing the results of appropriate RPC calls is one good way to minimize the
number of calls.
Injecting a replacement for a commonly called ikiwiki function