templatedir => "$srcdir/templates",
-.. and then the [[wikitemplates]] are managed like other wiki files; and
+.. and then the [[templates]] are managed like other wiki files; and
like other wiki files, a change to them automatically updates dependent
pages.
(This would also help to clear up the tricky disctinction between
wikitemplates and in-wiki templates.)
+Note also that when using templates from "$srcdir/templates/", `no_includes`
+needs to be set. Currently this is done by the two plugins that use
+such templates, while includes are allowed in `templatedir`.
+
+Have started working on this.
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=origin/templatemove author="[[Joey]]"]]
+
> But would this require that templates be parseable as wiki pages? Because that would be a nuisance. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
>> It would be better for them not to be rendered separately at all.
>>>>> Just to be clear, the raw files would not be copied across to the output
>>>>> directory? -- [[Jon]]
+
+>>>>>> Without modifying ikiwiki, they'd be copied to the output directory as
+>>>>>> (e.g.) http://ikiwiki.info/templates/inlinepage.tmpl; to not copy them,
+>>>>>> it'd either be necessary to make them be internal pages
+>>>>>> (templates/inlinepage._tmpl) or special-case them in some other way.
+>>>>>> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>>>>>> In my branch, I left in support for the templatedir, and also
+>>>>>>> /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates. So, users do not have to put their
+>>>>>>> custom templates in templates/ in the wiki. If they do,
+>>>>>>> the templates are copied to the destdir like other non-wiki page files
+>>>>>>> are. The templates are not wiki pages, except those used by a few
+>>>>>>> things like the [[plugins/template]] plugin.
+>>>>>>>
+>>>>>>> That seems acceptable, since users probably don't need to modify
+>>>>>>> many templates, so the clutter is small. (Especially when
+>>>>>>> compared to the other clutter the basewiki always puts in destdir.)
+>>>>>>> This could be revisted later. --[[Joey]]
+
+[[done]]