It would be better to find a way to make the toplevel index page not be a
special case at all.
+Here is a patch:
+
--- IkiWiki/Render.pm (revision 1187)
+++ IkiWiki/Render.pm (working copy)
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
> I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case.
> The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar.
-> This makes some things more elegant:
->
-> * All files having to do with foo/bar are in the foo/bar directory, rather
-> than the (admittedly minor) wart of having the index be in foo/.
-> * This sort of addresses [[bugs/broken_parentlinks]] in that example/ is
-> guaranteed to be a valid path. (There might be no index there, though.)
-> * This is more in line with standard HTML practice, as far as I understand it,
-> namely that linking to a/b means a/b/index.html rather than a/b.html.
->
-> This would change the inline plugin in strange ways -- I think if foo/index.html
-> contains \[[inline "* and !*/Discussion"]], it should skip inlining foo/index.html
-> explicitly, but would inline index pages in child directories
-> foo/bar/baz/index.html as bar/baz.
->
-> It always bothers me that foo/bar/ files need a foo/bar.html in front of them,
-> rather than a foo/bar/index.html, as is (to my mind) traditional.
->
-> Ethan
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+> You could do this today using [[todo/index.html_allowed]], except that the toplevel
+> page "index" becomes "", which causes all sorts of chaos. The discussion page would
+> become /discussion, and the weird parentlinks behavior would go away. --Ethan
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