+
+ > I wonder how hard it would be to make a patch whereby a file with
+ > no `.` in the name, and a name that matches a filetype, and where
+ > that filetype was registered `keepextension`, then the file is just
+ > chosen as the appropriate type. This would allow `Makefile` to
+ > work.
+
+like this:
+
+ diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
+ index 8d728c9..1bd46a9 100644
+ --- a/IkiWiki.pm
+ +++ b/IkiWiki.pm
+ @@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ sub pagetype ($) { #{{{
+
+ if ($page =~ /\.([^.]+)$/) {
+ return $1 if exists $hooks{htmlize}{$1};
+ + } elsif ($hooks{htmlize}{$page}{keepextension}) {
+ + return $page;
+ }
+ return;
+ } #}}}
+
+## format directive
+
+Rather than making syntax highlight plugins have to provide a preprocessor
+directive as well as handling whole source files, perhaps a generic format
+directive could be used:
+
+ \[[!format pl """..."""]]
+
+That would run the text through the pl htmlizer, from the syntax hightligh
+plugin. OTOH, if "rst" were given, it would run the text through the rst
+htmlizer. So, more generic, allows mixing different types of markup on one
+page, as well as syntax highlighting. Does require specifying the type of
+format, instead of allowing it to be guessed (which some syntax highlighters
+can do). (This directive is now implemented..)
+
+Hmm, this would also allow comments inside source files to have mdwn
+embedded in them, without making the use of mdwn a special case, or needing
+to postprocess the syntax highlighter output to find comments.
+
+ /* \[[!format mdwn """
+
+ This is a comment in my C file. You can use mdwn in here.
+
+ """]] */
+
+Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files.