unexpected results, since it will match a bunch of recentchanges pages,
etc.
-Recall that internal-use pages are not matched by a glob. So "*" doesn't
-match them. So if the pagespec is "* and !foo and !bar", it won't match
+Recall that internal-use pages are not matched by a glob. So "\*" doesn't
+match them. So if the pagespec is "\* and !foo and !bar", it won't match
them. This is the much more common style.
There's an odd inconsistency with entirely negated pagespecs. If "!foo"
Either approach would require fully parsing the pagespec. And consider cases
like "!(foo and !bar)". Doesn't seem at all easy to solve. --[[Joey]]
+
+> It occurs to me that at least one place in ikiwiki optimizes by assuming
+> that pagespecs not mentioning the word "internal" never match internal
+> pages. I wonder whether this bug could be solved by making that part of
+> the definition of a pagespec, rather than a risky optimization
+> like it is now? That seems strange, though - having this special case
+> would make pagespecs significantly harder to understand. --[[smcv]]