From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:47:16 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: link to timonator's patch
X-Git-Tag: 3.20110430~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/c005e37e2a4b6df89941442d979e144ed93840bd?hp=be0833b85633dcfaaaaaaf25a66193c6a7622297

link to timonator's patch
---

diff --git a/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn b/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn
index b5080dc3c..1d44cea88 100644
--- a/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/nested_preprocessor_directives.mdwn
@@ -16,3 +16,19 @@ nesting, a new syntax would be needed. Maybe something xml-like?
 >     """]]
 >
 > --[[JoshTriplett]]
+
+>> Yes it's definitely possible to do something like that. I'm not 100%
+>> sure if it can be done in perl regexp or needs a real recursive descent
+>> parser though.
+>>
+>> In the meantime, this is an interesting approach:
+>> <https://github.com/timo/ikiwiki/commit/a73837a8f26147e42a0bb2dde38b4890b27822b3>
+>> 
+>>	\[[!directive text=<<FOO
+>>	...
+>>	<<FOO]]
+>> 
+>> Since that's implemented, I will probably just merge it,
+>> once I satisfy myself it doesn't blow up in any edge cases.
+>> (It also adds triple single quotes as a third, distinct type of quotes,
+>> which feels a bit redundant given the here docs.) --[[Joey]]