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diff --git a/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn b/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/toplevel_index.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Some inconsistences around the toplevel [[index]] page:
   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 @@
@@ -40,4 +42,24 @@ Some inconsistences around the toplevel [[index]] page:
 > 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
+>
+> Hmm, now I've had time to think about this, and this does conflict pretty hard with foo.html/Discussion 
+> pages. Well, back to the drawing board.
+>
+> Well, it seems unlikely that you'll have both foo/bar.html and foo/bar/index.html, 
+> so why not accept either as foo/bar? This would both preserve backwards
+> compatibility, as well as allow foo/bar/Discussion.
+>
+> Ethan
+>
+> No, in order for this to work, the wiki path foo/bar/baz could be any of:
+>
+> * foo/bar/baz.html
+> * foo/index/bar/index/baz.html
+> * foo/bar/index/baz.html
+> * foo/bar/index/baz/index.html
+>
+> Or many others. Which is probably even hackier than having both foo.html and foo/.
+>
 > Ethan
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