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diff --git a/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn b/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn
index e0e6ba866..187497cf4 100644
--- a/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn
@@ -5,3 +5,13 @@ push`ing.  For the GNU Hurd's web pages, we include a *render_locally* script,
 <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing/web_pages.html>, section
 *Preview Changes*.  With ikiwiki, one can use `make docwiki`, but that excludes
 a set of pages, as per `docwiki.setup`.  --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> `ikiwiki -setup some.setup --render file.mdwn` will build the page and
+> dump it to stdout. So, for example:
+
+	ikiwiki -setup docwiki.setup --render doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn | w3m -T text/html
+
+> You have to have a setup file, though it suffices to make up your own
+> if you don't have the real one. Using ikiwiki.info's real setup file
+> won't actually work since it uses a search plugin that gets unhappy
+> if this is not in `/srv/web/ikiwiki.info`. --[[Joey]]