-Ikiwiki's plugin interface allows all kinds of useful [[plugins]] to be
+lkiwiki's plugin interface allows all kinds of useful [[plugins]] to be
written to extend ikiwiki in many ways. Despite the length of this page,
it's not really hard. This page is a complete reference to everything a
plugin might want to do. There is also a quick [[tutorial]].
* `description` is a short description of the option.
* `link` is a link to further information about the option. This can either
be a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]], or an url.
+* `htmldescription` is displayed instead of the description by websetup.
* `advanced` can be set to true if the option is more suitable for advanced
users.
* `safe` should be false if the option should not be displayed in unsafe
second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other
destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
-If the second parameter is `undef` (or not specified), the URL will be
+Provide a second parameter whenever possible, since this leads to better
+behaviour for the [[plugins/po]] plugin and `file:///` URLs.
+
+If the second parameter is not specified (or `undef`), the URL will be
valid from any page on the wiki, or from the CGI; if possible it'll
be a path starting with `/`, but an absolute URL will be used if
the wiki and the CGI are on different domains.
-If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
-constructed instead of the default relative url.
+If the third parameter is passed and is true, the url will be a fully
+absolute url. This is useful when generating an url to publish elsewhere.
### `newpagefile($$)`
],
}
-#### `rcs_diff($)`
+#### `rcs_diff($;$)`
+
+The first parameter is the rev from `rcs_recentchanges`.
+The optional second parameter is how many lines to return (default: all).
-The parameter is the rev from `rcs_recentchanges`.
Should return a list of lines of the diff (including \n) in list
-context, and the whole diff in scalar context.
+context, and a string containing the whole diff in scalar context.
#### `rcs_getctime($)`