X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/9d5075ab521a24d718a2b663e11856c8cc80eb03..58481dcdf623aed8ab840ab86e3ac065c4bcb8a1:/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn index 90b96c936..86abe5745 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Some more elaborate limits can be added to what matches using these functions: wiki admins. * "`ip(address)`" - tests whether a modification is being made from the specified IP address. -* "`postcomment(glob)`" - matches internal-use pages created by the - comments plugin as comments for pages that match the specified glob. +* "`postcomment(glob)`" - matches only when comments are being + posted to a page matching the specified glob For example, to match all pages in a blog that link to the page about music and were written in 2005: @@ -72,22 +72,3 @@ filenames of the pages in the wiki, so a pagespec "foo" used on page "a/b" will not match a page named "a/foo" or "a/b/foo". To match relative to the directory of the page containing the pagespec, you can use "./". For example, "./foo" on page "a/b" matches page "a/foo". - -## Old syntax - -The old PageSpec syntax was called a "GlobList", and worked differently in -two ways: - -1. "and" and "or" were not used; any page matching any item from the list - matched. -2. If an item was prefixed with "`!`", then no page matching that item - matched, even if it matched an earlier list item. - -For example, here is the old way to match all pages except for the SandBox -and Discussion pages: - - * !SandBox !*/Discussion - -Using this old syntax is still supported. However, the old syntax is -deprecated and will be removed at some point, and using the new syntax is -recommended.