> - preprocessor directives do not necessarily have the same name as the
> plugin that contains them (for example, the graphviz plugin adds a graph
> directive). Won't keys `%{IkiWiki::hooks{preprocess}}` work?
+
+>>> Er, yeah - that's a much better solution. :) -- and done
+
> - "listplugins" is a bit misnamed since it only does preprocessor directives.
+
+>>> Yes. Initially this was going to list all enabled plugins. Then when searching
+>>> for enabled plugins I changed my mind and decided that a list of pre-processor
+>>> directives was more useful. I'll fix that too. -- changed to `listpreprocessors`
+
> - comment was copied from version plugin and still mentions version :-)
+
+>>> :-) -- fixed
+
> - Seems like [[ikiwiki/formatting]] could benefit from including the
> list.. however, just a list of preprocessor directive names is not
> the most user-friendly thing that could be put on that page. It would
>
> --[[Joey]]
- #!/usr/bin/perl
- # Ikiwiki listplugins plugin.
- package IkiWiki::Plugin::listplugins;
-
- use warnings;
- use strict;
- use IkiWiki 2.00;
-
- sub import { #{{{
- hook(type => "getsetup", id => "listplugins", call => \&getsetup);
- hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "listplugins", call => \&needsbuild);
- hook(type => "preprocess", id => "listplugins", call => \&preprocess);
- } # }}}
-
- sub getsetup () { #{{{
- return
- plugin => {
- safe => 1,
- rebuild => undef,
- },
- } #}}}
-
- my @pluginlist;
- my $pluginString;
-
- sub needsbuild (@) { #{{{
- my $needsbuild=shift;
-
- my @rawpluginlist = sort(IkiWiki::listplugins());
- @pluginlist = ();
-
- foreach my $plugin (@rawpluginlist) {
- if ( exists $IkiWiki::hooks{preprocess}{$plugin} ) {
- push(@pluginlist,$plugin);
- }
- }
-
- $pluginString = join (' ', @pluginlist);
-
- foreach my $page (keys %pagestate) {
- if (exists $pagestate{$page}{listplugins}{shown}) {
- if ($pagestate{$page}{listplugins}{shown} ne $pluginString) {
- push @$needsbuild, $pagesources{$page};
- }
- if (exists $pagesources{$page} &&
- grep { $_ eq $pagesources{$page} } @$needsbuild) {
- # remove state, will be re-added if
- # the version is still shown during the
- # rebuild
- delete $pagestate{$page}{listplugins}{shown};
- }
- }
- }
- } # }}}
-
- sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
- my %params=@_;
-
- $pagestate{$params{destpage}}{listplugins}{shown}=$pluginString;
-
- my $result = "<ul class=\"pluginlist\">";
- my $thisPlugin;
- foreach $thisPlugin (@pluginlist) {
- $result .= "<li class=\"pluginlist\">$thisPlugin</li>";
- }
- $result .= "</ul>";
-
- return $result;
- } # }}}
-
- 1
+>> Adding a whole new hook for a usage example is more effort than I
+>> wanted to go to. I was thinking of either:
+
+>>> Just to clarify, I meant adding new parameters to the same hook call
+>>> that registers the plugin. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> - Adding a configuration for a wiki directory. If a matching page is in the
+>> specified wiki directory then the plugin name gets turned into a link to that
+>> page
+>> - Adding configuration for an external URL. Each plugin name is added as
+>> a link to the plugin name appended to the URL.
+
+>>The first option is easier to navigate and wouldn't produce broken links,
+>>but requires all the plugin documentation to be local. The second option
+>>can link back to the main IkiWiki site, but if you have any non-standard
+>>plugins then you'll get broken links.
+>>
+>>Hrm. After listing all of that, maybe your idea with the hooks is the better
+>>solution. I'll think about it some more. -- [[Will]]
+
+>>> I've also run into this problem with the websetup plugin, and
+>>> considered those ideas too. I don't like the external url, because
+>>> ikiwiki.info may be out of sync with the version of ikiwiki being used.
+>>> (Or maybe it's gone! :-) The first idea is fine, except for the bloat
+>>> issue. If turning on listpreprocessors and/or websetup means adding
+>>> hundreds of pages (and of kilobytes) to your wiki, that could be an
+>>> incentive to not turn them on..
+>>>
+>>> Hmm.. maybe the thing to do is to use _internal pages for the plugins;
+>>> then the individual pages would not be rendered, and your inlines would
+>>> still work. Although I don't know how websetup would use it then, and
+>>> also they would have to be non-internal for ikiwiki's own docwiki. Hmm.
+>>> Maybe these are two different things; one is a set of pages describing
+>>> preprocessor directives, and the second a set of pages describing
+>>> plugins. They're so closely related though it seems a shame to keep
+>>> them separate..
+>>> --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> I started implementing the hook based solution, and decided I didn't like
+>>> it because there was no nice way to rebuild pages when the preprocessor
+>>> descriptions changed. So instead I assumed that the the [[plugins]] pages
+>>> would be moved into the underlay directory. This plugin then uses an
+>>> `inline` directive to include those pages. You can use the `inline`
+>>> parameter to decide if you want to include all the descriptions or
+>>> just the titles. There is also an option to auto-create default/blank
+>>> description pages if they are missing (from a template). As preprocessor
+>>> commands don't list unless they have a description page, auto-creation
+>>> is enabled by default.
+>>>
+>>> There are three new templates that are needed. These are for:
+>>>
+>>> - The auto-created description pages are generated from `preprocessor-description.tmpl`.
+>>> - When only pre-processor names are listed, the `listpreprocessors-listonly.tmpl` template is used.
+>>> - When pre-processor descriptions are included inline, the `listpreprocessors-inline.tmpl` template is used.
+>>>
+>>> -- [[Will]]
+
+>>>> Just a quick note: pages are only created for pre-processor commands
+>>>> that exist when the `refresh` hook is called. This is before the [[shortcuts]] are
+>>>> processed. However, the list of available pre-processor commands will include
+>>>> shortcuts if they have description pages (the list is generated later, after the
+>>>> shortcuts have been added). While this was unplanned, it seems a reasonable
+>>>> tradeoff between including all the large number of shortcuts and including none. -- [[Will]]
+
+>>>>>> I think that using an inline is elegant! However, I don't understand
+>>>>>> why it has to create stub description pages? I doubt that, if a
+>>>>>> directive is missing a page, the stub will be filled out in many
+>>>>>> wikis. And it adds a lot of complexity, particularly committing a
+>>>>>> bunch of generated pages to revision control when the user just
+>>>>>> wants a plugin list seems undesirable.
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> Seems to me it could use the inline for pages that exist, and append
+>>>>>> to the bottom a generated text for anything that is currently missing.
+>>>>>> The generated text could even have a page creation link in it if
+>>>>>> you wanted.
+>>>>>> --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>>>>> I kinda agree about the page generation. I don't like mixing an
+>>>>>>> inlined and a list though. Besides which, that ends
+>>>>>>> up keeping much of complexity of the page generation because
+>>>>>>> the code still has to detect which pages are missing. I've added
+>>>>>>> a patch that uses a list of wikilinks instead. This way available
+>>>>>>> pages get linked correctly, and missing pages get normal creation
+>>>>>>> links. The old patch is still here if you decide you prefer that. -- [[Will]]
+
+>>>>>>>> Can you explain the full/early list (why track both?) and generated parameter?
+
+>>>>>>>>> If you add in all the shortcuts you get quite a long list. My original idea
+>>>>>>>>> was to just track the plugin commands. This is the early list. But then
+>>>>>>>>> I thought that it might be nice for someone looking at wiki source and
+>>>>>>>>> seeing a shortcut to know where it came from. So I decided to make
+>>>>>>>>> displaying the full list an option, with the original concept as the default.
+
+>>>>>>>>> Another option here might be to generate the full list every time, but give
+>>>>>>>>> generated pre-processor commands (e.g. shortcuts) a different css class.
+>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure that is better than what I have though.
+
+>>>>>>>>> I keep track of both in the page state because if a command moves from
+>>>>>>>>> a shortcut to the early list (or vice versa) it changes what should be
+>>>>>>>>> displayed in the default use of the plugin. I thought about tracking just what
+>>>>>>>>> was actually used on the page, but I don't know in the needsbuild hook whether the `generated`
+>>>>>>>>> parameter has been supplied (or maybe the plugin is used twice on the page -
+>>>>>>>>> once in each form). It was just easier to track both.
+
+>>>>>>>> Only code change I'd suggest is using `htmllink` rather than
+>>>>>>>> generating a wikilink.
+
+>>>>>>>>> Yeah - that would make sense. done. -- [[Will]]
+
+Patch is applied (along with some changes..). [[done]] (But, see
+[[directive_docs]].