>>> Presently the patch does not move `foo/index.type` as `foo/index/index.html`, but renders
>>> it as `foo/index.html`, not because I particularly want that (except for the top-level one, of
>>> course), but because it could be done :). This, however, conflicts with a `foo.mdwn`
- >>> rendered as `foo/index.html`. The easiest and cleanest way to do this, is to simply
+ >>> rendered as `foo/index.html`. The easiest and cleanest way to fix this, is to simply
>>> not handle `index` in such a special manner -- except for the top-level one. --[[tuomov]]
+ >>>> Oh, I see, this patch doesn't address wanting to use foo/index.mdwn as
+ >>>> an input page. Hmm. --Ethan
+
+ >>>>> No, it doesn't. I originally also was after that, but after discussing the
+ >>>>> complexities of supporting that with Joey, came up with this simpler scheme
+ >>>>> without many of those issues. It is the output that I primarily care about, anyway,
+ >>>>> and I do, in fact, find the present input file organisation quite nice. The output
+ >>>>> locations just aren't very good for conversion of an existing site to ikiwiki, and do
+ >>>>> make for rather ugly URLs with the .html extensions. (I do often type some URLs
+ >>>>> out of memory, when they're gone from the browser's completion history, and the
+ >>>>> .html makes that more laboursome.)
+
+ >>>>>> I support your decision, but now this wiki page serves two different patches :).
+ >>>>>> Can we split them somehow?
+ >>>>>> What are the complexities involved?
+ >>>>>> I think I overcomplicated it a little with my patch, and Per Bothner's gets
+ >>>>>> much closer to the heart of it. --Ethan
+
* This does make the resulting wikis much less browsable directly on the
filesystem, since `dir` to `dir/index.html` conversion is only handled by web
servers and so you end up browsing to a directory index all the time.