X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f92505d78b82c6ac146e43054ebd12441575a602..8f8543389e1472292b55b7394835932d206ecddb:/doc/ikiwiki/preprocessordirective.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/preprocessordirective.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/preprocessordirective.mdwn index e8bf783a9..743c0d9f5 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/preprocessordirective.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/preprocessordirective.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]] Preprocessor directives are similar to a [[WikiLink]] in form, except they begin with `!` and may contain parameters. The general form is: @@ -30,10 +31,9 @@ of text with triple-quotes: ikiwiki also has an older syntax for preprocessor directives, which requires a space in directives to distinguish them from [[wikilinks|wikilink]]. This syntax has several disadvantages: it requires a space after directives with no -parameters (such as `\[[!pagecount ]]`), and it prohibits spaces in +parameters (such as `\[[pagecount ]]`), and it prohibits spaces in [[wikilinks|wikilink]]. ikiwiki now provides the `!`-prefixed syntax shown above as the preferred alternative. However, ikiwiki still supports wikis -using the older syntax, if their setup files disable the `prefix_directives` -option. For backward compatibility with existing wikis, this option currently -defaults to off, so ikiwiki uses the old directive syntax; however, future -versions of ikiwiki will turn this on by default. +using the older syntax, if the `prefix_directives` option is not enabled. +For backward compatibility with existing wikis, this option currently +defaults to off, so ikiwiki supports the old syntax.