+
+> The pagespec is no longer in the preferences and instead in the setup
+> file now. That makes warning about a problem with it harder.
+>
+> Ikiwiki could try to detect this problem and warn at setup time to
+> stderr, I guess.
+>
+> Main problem is I see little way to actually detect the problem you
+> described. A pagespec with quotes around it is valid. For example, the
+> pagespec `"foo or bar"` matches a page named `"foo` or a page named `bar"`.
+>
+> There are small classes of invalid pagespecs. For example, `(foo or bar`
+> is invalid due to having unbalanced parens, while `foo or and bar`
+> has invalid syntax. It's possible to detect these, I guess ... --[[Joey]]