Thanks again to [Joey](http://kitenet.net/~joey) for putting ikiwiki together. I love the program.
*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)=*
+
+----
+
+The MediaWiki moving/renaming mechanism is pretty nice. It's easy to get a list of pages that point to the current page. When renaming a page it sticks a forwarding page in the original place. The larger the size of the wiki the more important organization tools become.
+
+I see the need for:
+
+* a new type of file to represent a forwarding page
+* a rename tool that can
+ * move the existing page to the new name
+ * optionally drop a forwarding page
+ * optionally rewrite incoming links to the new location
+
+Brad
+
+> This could be implemented through the use of an HTTP redirect to the
+> new page, but this has the downside that people may not know they're being
+> redirected.
+>
+> This could also be implemented using a combination of raw inline and meta
+> to change the title (add a "redirected from etc." page. This could be done
+> with a plugin. A redirect page would be [[redirect page="newpage"]].
+> But then if you click "edit" on this redirect page, you won't be able
+> to edit the new page, only the call to redirect.
+> --Ethan
+
+-----
+
+[[tag patch]]
+
+This is my second cut at a feature like that requested here.
+It can also be found [here](http://ikidev.betacantrips.com/patches/move.patch).
+
+A few shortcomings exist:
+
+* No precautions whatsoever are made to protect against race conditions or failures
+ in the rcs\_move function. I didn't even do the `cgi_editpage` thing where I hold
+ the lock and render afterwards (mostly because the copy I was editing was not
+ up-to-date enough to have that code). Although FAILED_SAVE is in movepage.tmpl,
+ no code activates it yet.
+* Some code is duplicated between cgi\_movepage and cgi\_editpage, as well
+ as rcs\_commit and rcs\_move.
+* The user interface is pretty lame. I couldn't figure out a good way to let
+ the user specify which directory to move things to without implementing a
+ FileChooser thing.
+* No redirect pages like those mentioned on [[todo/Moving_Pages]] exist yet,
+ so none are created.
+* I added a Move link to page.tmpl but it may belong better someplace else --
+ maybe editpage.tmpl? Not sure.
+* from is redundant with page so far -- but since the Move links could someday
+ come from someplace other than the page itself I kept it around.
+* If I move foo.mdwn to bar.mdwn, foo/* should move too, probably.
+
+> Looks like a good start, although I agree about many of the points above,
+> and also feel that something needs to be done about rcses that don't
+> implement a move operation -- falling back to an add and delete.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+Hmm. Shouldn't that be done on a by-RCS basis, though? (i.e. implemented
+by backends in the `rcs_move` function)
+
+> Probably, yes, but maybe there's a way to avoid duplicating code for that
+> in several of them.
+
+Also, how should ikiwiki react if a page is edited (say, by another user)
+before it is moved? Bail, or shrug and proceed?
+
+> The important thing is to keep in mind that the page could be edited,
+> moved, deleted, etc in between the user starting the move and the move
+> happening. So, the code really needs to deal with all of these cases in
+> some way. It seems fine to me to go ahead with the move even if the page
+> was edited. If the page was deleted or moved, it seems reasonable to exit
+> with an error.
+
+ diff -urNX ignorepats ikiwiki/IkiWiki/CGI.pm ikidev/IkiWiki/CGI.pm
+ --- ikiwiki/IkiWiki/CGI.pm 2007-02-14 18:17:12.000000000 -0800
+ +++ ikidev/IkiWiki/CGI.pm 2007-02-22 18:54:23.194982000 -0800
+ @@ -561,6 +561,106 @@
+ }
+ } #}}}
+
+ +sub cgi_movepage($$) {
+ + my $q = shift;
+ + my $session = shift;
+ + eval q{use CGI::FormBuilder};
+ + error($@) if $@;
+ + my @fields=qw(do from rcsinfo page newdir newname comments);
+ + my @buttons=("Rename Page", "Cancel");
+ +
+ + my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new(
+ + fields => \@fields,
+ + header => 1,
+ + charset => "utf-8",
+ + method => 'POST',
+ + action => $config{cgiurl},
+ + template => (-e "$config{templatedir}/movepage.tmpl" ?
+ + {template_params("movepage.tmpl")} : ""),
+ + );
+ + run_hooks(formbuilder_setup => sub {
+ + shift->(form => $form, cgi => $q, session => $session);
+ + });
+ +
+ + decode_form_utf8($form);
+ +
+ + # This untaint is safe because if the page doesn't exist, bail.
+ + my $page = $form->field('page');
+ + $page = possibly_foolish_untaint($page);
+ + if (! exists $pagesources{$page}) {
+ + error("page does not exist");
+ + }
+ + my $file=$pagesources{$page};
+ + my $type=pagetype($file);
+ +
+ + my $from;
+ + if (defined $form->field('from')) {
+ + ($from)=$form->field('from')=~/$config{wiki_file_regexp}/;
+ + }
+ +
+ + $form->field(name => "do", type => 'hidden');
+ + $form->field(name => "from", type => 'hidden');
+ + $form->field(name => "rcsinfo", type => 'hidden');
+ + $form->field(name => "newdir", type => 'text', size => 80);
+ + $form->field(name => "page", value => $page, force => 1);
+ + $form->field(name => "newname", type => "text", size => 80);
+ + $form->field(name => "comments", type => "text", size => 80);
+ + $form->tmpl_param("can_commit", $config{rcs});
+ + $form->tmpl_param("indexlink", indexlink());
+ + $form->tmpl_param("baseurl", baseurl());
+ +
+ + if (! $form->submitted) {
+ + $form->field(name => "rcsinfo", value => rcs_prepedit($file),
+ + force => 1);
+ + }
+ +
+ + if ($form->submitted eq "Cancel") {
+ + redirect($q, "$config{url}/".htmlpage($page));
+ + return;
+ + }
+ +
+ + if (! $form->submitted || ! $form->validate) {
+ + check_canedit($page, $q, $session);
+ + $form->tmpl_param("page_select", 0);
+ + $form->field(name => "page", type => 'hidden');
+ + $form->field(name => "type", type => 'hidden');
+ + $form->title(sprintf(gettext("moving %s"), pagetitle($page)));
+ + my $pname = basename($page);
+ + my $dname = dirname($page);
+ + if (! defined $form->field('newname') ||
+ + ! length $form->field('newname')) {
+ + $form->field(name => "newname",
+ + value => pagetitle($pname, 1), force => 1);
+ + }
+ + if (! defined $form->field('newdir') ||
+ + ! length $form->field('newdir')) {
+ + $form->field(name => "newdir",
+ + value => pagetitle($dname, 1), force => 1);
+ + }
+ + print $form->render(submit => \@buttons);
+ + }
+ + else{
+ + # This untaint is safe because titlepage removes any problematic
+ + # characters.
+ + my ($newname)=$form->field('newname');
+ + $newname=titlepage(possibly_foolish_untaint($newname));
+ + my ($newdir)=$form->field('newdir');
+ + $newdir=titlepage(possibly_foolish_untaint($newdir));
+ + if (! defined $newname || ! length $newname || file_pruned($newname, $config{srcdir}) || $newname=~/^\//) {
+ + error("bad page name");
+ + }
+ + check_canedit($page, $q, $session);
+ +
+ + my $newpage = ($newdir?"$newdir/":"") . $newname;
+ + my $newfile = $newpage . ".$type";
+ + my $message = $form->field('comments');
+ + unlockwiki();
+ + rcs_move($file, $newfile, $message, $form->field("rcsinfo"),
+ + $session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+ + redirect($q, "$config{url}/".htmlpage($newpage));
+ + }
+ +}
+ +
+ sub cgi_getsession ($) { #{{{
+ my $q=shift;
+
+ @@ -656,6 +756,9 @@
+ elsif (defined $session->param("postsignin")) {
+ cgi_postsignin($q, $session);
+ }
+ + elsif ($do eq 'move') {
+ + cgi_movepage($q, $session);
+ + }
+ elsif ($do eq 'prefs') {
+ cgi_prefs($q, $session);
+ }
+ diff -urNX ignorepats ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm ikidev/IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm
+ --- ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm 2007-01-27 16:04:48.000000000 -0800
+ +++ ikidev/IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm 2007-02-22 01:51:29.923626000 -0800
+ @@ -60,6 +60,34 @@
+ }
+ } #}}}
+
+ +sub rcs_move ($$$$;$$) {
+ + my $file=shift;
+ + my $newname=shift;
+ + my $message=shift;
+ + my $rcstoken=shift;
+ + my $user=shift;
+ + my $ipaddr=shift;
+ + if (defined $user) {
+ + $message="web commit by $user".(length $message ? ": $message" : "");
+ + }
+ + elsif (defined $ipaddr) {
+ + $message="web commit from $ipaddr".(length $message ? ": $message" : "");
+ + }
+ +
+ + chdir($config{srcdir}); # svn merge wants to be here
+ +
+ + if (system("svn", "move", "--quiet",
+ + "$file", "$newname") != 0) {
+ + return 1;
+ + }
+ + if (system("svn", "commit", "--quiet",
+ + "--encoding", "UTF-8", "-m",
+ + possibly_foolish_untaint($message)) != 0) {
+ + return 1;
+ + }
+ + return undef # success
+ +}
+ +
+ sub rcs_commit ($$$;$$) { #{{{
+ # Tries to commit the page; returns undef on _success_ and
+ # a version of the page with the rcs's conflict markers on failure.
+ diff -urNX ignorepats ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Render.pm ikidev/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+ --- ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Render.pm 2007-02-14 17:00:05.000000000 -0800
+ +++ ikidev/IkiWiki/Render.pm 2007-02-22 18:30:00.451755000 -0800
+ @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
+
+ if (length $config{cgiurl}) {
+ $template->param(editurl => cgiurl(do => "edit", page => $page));
+ + $template->param(moveurl => cgiurl(do => "move", page => $page));
+ $template->param(prefsurl => cgiurl(do => "prefs"));
+ if ($config{rcs}) {
+ $template->param(recentchangesurl => cgiurl(do => "recentchanges"));
+ diff -urNX ignorepats ikiwiki/templates/movepage.tmpl ikidev/templates/movepage.tmpl
+ --- ikiwiki/templates/movepage.tmpl 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+ +++ ikidev/templates/movepage.tmpl 2007-02-22 18:40:39.751763000 -0800
+ @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+ + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+ +<html>
+ +<head>
+ +<base href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>" />
+ +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+ +<title><TMPL_VAR FORM-TITLE></title>
+ +<link rel="stylesheet" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" type="text/css" />
+ +<link rel="stylesheet" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>local.css" type="text/css" />
+ +<TMPL_IF NAME="FAVICON">
+ +<link rel="icon" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL><TMPL_VAR FAVICON>" type="image/x-icon" />
+ +</TMPL_IF>
+ +</head>
+ +<body>
+ +<TMPL_IF NAME="FAILED_SAVE">
+ +<p>
+ +<b>Failed to save your changes.</b>
+ +</p>
+ +<p>
+ +Your changes were not able to be saved to disk. The system gave the error:
+ +<blockquote>
+ +<TMPL_VAR ERROR_MESSAGE>
+ +</blockquote>
+ +Your changes are preserved below, and you can try again to save them.
+ +</p>
+ +</TMPL_IF>
+ +<TMPL_VAR FORM-START>
+ +<div class="header">
+ +<span><TMPL_VAR INDEXLINK>/ <TMPL_VAR FORM-TITLE></span>
+ +</div>
+ +<TMPL_VAR FIELD-DO>
+ +<TMPL_VAR FIELD-FROM>
+ +<TMPL_VAR FIELD-RCSINFO>
+ +<TMPL_VAR FIELD-PAGE>
+ +New location: <TMPL_VAR FIELD-NEWDIR>/ <TMPL_VAR FIELD-NEWNAME>
+ +<br />
+ +<TMPL_IF NAME="CAN_COMMIT">
+ +Optional comment about this change:<br />
+ +<TMPL_VAR FIELD-COMMENTS><br />
+ +</TMPL_IF>
+ +<input id="_submit" name="_submit" type="submit" value="Rename Page" /><input id="_submit_2" name="_submit" type="submit" value="Cancel" />
+ +<TMPL_VAR FORM-END>
+ +</body>
+ +</html>
+ diff -urNX ignorepats ikiwiki/templates/page.tmpl ikidev/templates/page.tmpl
+ --- ikiwiki/templates/page.tmpl 2006-12-28 12:27:01.000000000 -0800
+ +++ ikidev/templates/page.tmpl 2007-02-22 01:52:33.078464000 -0800
+ @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
+ <TMPL_IF NAME="EDITURL">
+ <li><a href="<TMPL_VAR EDITURL>">Edit</a></li>
+ </TMPL_IF>
+ +<TMPL_IF NAME="MOVEURL">
+ +<li><a href="<TMPL_VAR MOVEURL>">Move</a></li>
+ +</TMPL_IF>
+ <TMPL_IF NAME="RECENTCHANGESURL">
+ <li><a href="<TMPL_VAR RECENTCHANGESURL>">RecentChanges</a></li>
+ </TMPL_IF>