X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/8323bc5214bf3581ebfbad57385934033c228b76..69c560fc2195ec409e99806faf9ae7bdf7da1039:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 719768117..fc17ab380 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,8 +5,41 @@ Do so here.. Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. +[[toc ]] + # Installation/Setup questions +I ran into a problem when installing from svn. I got "invalid variable +interpolation" errors for Wrappers.pm. I added the flag '--extract-all' to +'po/Makefile' and 'po/t' to the xgettext line. Once I did that I was able +to make and make test just fine. --HarleyPig + +> It would be helpful if you could post the actual error message you saw. +> Also would be nice to know what versions of perl and gettext you have. +> Perhaps your xgettext is an older version from before it natively +> supported perl. +> Adding --extract-all doesn't seem like a good idea, since this causes it +> to treat every string in the entire wiki as translatable. I don't know +> what you're talking about regarding 'po/t'. --[[Joey]] + +>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/www/ikiwiki/po' +>> Rebuilding the pot file +>> xgettext ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/aggregate.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/camelcase.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/favicon.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/fortune.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/goodstuff.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/googlecalendar.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/haiku.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/html.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/htmltidy.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/linkmap.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/map.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/mdwn.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/mirrorlist.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/openid.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/orphans.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/otl.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/pagecount.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/polygen.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/rawhtml.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/shortcut.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/smiley.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/textile.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/toc.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/toggle.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/typography.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/wikitext.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/Stub.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/mercurial.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/tla.pm ../IkiWiki/Render.pm ../IkiWiki/Setup.pm ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm ../IkiWiki/UserInfo.pm ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm ../ikiwiki.in ../IkiWiki.pm -o ikiwiki.pot -Lperl --add-comments=translators ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:64: invalid variable interpolation at "$" +>> make[1]: *** [ikiwiki.pot] Error 1 +>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/www/ikiwiki/po' +>> make: *** [extra_build] Error 2 +>> +>> harleypig ikiwiki # xgettext --version +>> +>> xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.15 +>> +>> harleypig ikiwiki # perl -v +>> +>> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux +>> +>> Sorry about the po/t report ... it was the test file I used to figure out what was wrong and I forgot to remove it. This is against the subversion repository, version 2338. +>> The referenced line has a $! variable, which the documentation for gettext indicates is the problem. + I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:- @@ -85,40 +118,6 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). ---- -# OpenID - -I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= - -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# ACL - -> Moved to [[todo/ACL]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - -Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan - -> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]]) - ----- - -Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just -$config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into -the template. -- Ethan - -> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# Canonical feed location? - -Moved to [[todo/canonical_feed_location]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - # asciidoc or txt2tags ? Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? @@ -144,6 +143,8 @@ Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX? >> >> --JeremyReed +>>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/). It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]] + ---- # Using with CVS? @@ -182,53 +183,87 @@ Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form ---- -# Disable sub-discussion pages? +# Access Keys + +Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other +wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an +accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those +actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? +--[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) -Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]] +> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at +> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html into account. + +>> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to +>> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a +>> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access +>> to the browser menu. ---- -# wiki\_file\_regexp and RCS ,v files +# Editing the style sheet. -I have RCS ,v files in my source directory. But get many "skipping bad filename" warnings. +It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. +Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) -Also I don't see wiki\_file\_regexp documented. Because it is used with $config{wiki\_file\_regexp} I assume it can be set in the ikiwiki.setup. -I added a comma to it in my IkiWiki.pm in the defaultconfig(). But that was wrong (so I reverted back), because then the ,v files were copied to my www tree. +> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets file upload support, +> it'll be possible to upload a style sheet. (If .css is in the allowed +> extensions list.. no idea how safe that would be, a style sheet is +> probably a great place to put XSS attacks and evil javascript that would +> be filtered out of any regular page in ikiwiki). --[[Joey]] -What is the correct way to include ,v RCS revision files in my source tree without receiving the "bad" messages and without copying over to www tree? +>> I hadn't thought of that at all. It's a common feature and one I've +>> relied on safely, because the wikis I am maintaining at the moment +>> are all private and restricted to trusted users. Given that the whole +>> point of ikiwiki is to be able to access and edit via the shell as +>> well as the web, I suppose the features doesn't add a lot. By the +>> way, the w3m mode is brilliant. I haven't tried it yet, but the idea +>> is great. --- [[JeremyReed]] +---- + +# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages? + +The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file, +for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion" +or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine. -> Add the ,v to the $config{wiki_file_prune_regexps} array. This is how we -> skip equivilant files from other revision control systems too. -> --[[Joey]]] +> Went ahead and did this, IMHO the display is ok as-is. --[[Joey]] ---- -# Textile Plugin +# Should not create an existing page -It was trivial, but I put together a plugin that uses the Textile markup -language, which I find to be the most superior of the various options for -that sort of thing. Where or how do I submit it for inclusion? +This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first. +Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists, should not go into "create" mode, but should do a regular "edit". -> You can post it to [[plugins/contrib]]. --[[Joey]] +> I belive that currently it does a redirect to the new static web page. +> At least that's the intent of the code. --[[Joey]] ->> Thanks. I tried using the "Add new post" form there, but apparently made a [mess of things somehow](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/contrib/textile___40__third-party_plugin__41__.html). Sorry about that. +>> Try at your site: `?page=discussion&from=index&do=create` +>> It brings up an empty textarea to start a new webpage -- even though it already exists here. --reed ->>> No problem, the contrib form had the wrong rootpage setting. I've fixed ->>> it up and moved it to the right place. A copyright statement would be ->>> nice. +>>> Ah, right. Notice that the resulting form allows saving the page as +>>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this +>>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect +>>> thing. --[[Joey]] -> How does one go about making a markup language added by means of a plugin, the default markup language. In other words, I would like the index page to be written in Textile. -> If I include a index.txtl (where txtl is the extension I have assigned to be handled by the textile plugin), ikiwiki will ignore it and make a new index.mdwn. +---- ->> Sounds like a bug; it should be configurable via `default_pageext`, but ->> I suspect that currently if there are two competing files with different ->> extensions that make the same page, they fight it out and some random ->> one "wins" ->> ->> Until I fix that, you can avoid the one from the underlay directory by ->> setting `underlaydir` to point to an empty directory. --[[Joey]] ->> ->> Ok, fixed (in svn), it will now prefer files in the srcdir over files ->> in the underlaydir that build the same page, no matter what extension. +# Refreshing RecentChanges page + +What do you think about refreshing RecentChanges page (via Meta Refresh Tag)? +It can be useful for users like me which rather prefer watching the last changes +in WWW browser tab than subscribing to page. --Pawel + +> Depends, if it were done the time period should be made configurable. +> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some. +> --[[Joey]] + +>> Yes, it should be configurable by ikiwiki admin. I believe he's not +>> stupid and he will not set too short refresh period to kill his server :) +>> I propose to add `recentchanges_refresh` variable in ikiwiki setup +>> to setting refresh period. If it's not defined, then ikiwiki doesn't put +>> refresh meta tag into `recentchanges.tmpl`. Do you like it? ;) --Pawel + +>>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]]