From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:10:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: suggested in two places => useful? X-Git-Tag: 3.20101112~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/0e4e3f7cae25082fc90a93dee41b397b0ae9be09?hp=93e15cc84f47a1340f8bd06d7056ba423fe510bb suggested in two places => useful? --- diff --git a/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9808ffdfe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +On [[todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template]], [[chrysn]] +suggests: + +> Instead of creating a file that gets checked in into the RCS, the +> source files could be left out and the output files be written as +> long as there is no physical source file (think of a virtual underlay). +> Something similar would be required to implement alias directive, +> which couldn't be easily done by writing to the RCS as the page's +> contents can change depending on which other pages claim it as an alias. + +`add_autofile` could be adapted to do this, or a similar API could be +added. + +This would also be useful for autoindex, as suggested on +[[plugins/autoindex/discussion]]. I'd also like to use it for +[[plugins/contrib/album]]. + +One refinement I'd suggest is that if the transient page is edited, +its transient contents are evaluated and used as the initial +content for the edit box; after that, it'd become a static page. --[[smcv]]