[Pmwiki-users] Re: [[include: ... ]] part of a page

[Nathan Jones]

Pm wrote:
>   [[include:SomePage#soup]]       -- everything after #soup (cf. HTML)
>   [[include:SomePage#soup#nuts]]  -- from #soup to #nuts
>   [[include:SomePage#1#soup]]     -- everything before #soup
>   [[include:SomePage#soup#]]      -- from #soup to the next anchor
>   [[include:SomePage#1#]]         -- everything up to the first anchor
>   [[include:SomePage#10]]         -- line 10 through end of SomePage
>   [[include:SomePage#10#]]        -- line 10 through the next anchor
>
>   [[include:SomePage#1#10]]       -- first ten lines 
>   [[include:SomePage#5#10]]       -- lines 5 through 14
>   [[include:SomePage#soup#1]]     -- one line starting with #soup
>   [[include:SomePage#soup#5]]     -- five lines starting with #soup

I like these a lot. Nice and clear and flexible enough to cover most
situations. The only bit I didn't guess intuitively is that #5#10 means
"10 lines starting with line 5". I read it as "lines 5 through to 10".

Now, I could add yet another suggestion and say:

  [[include:SomePage#5+10]]      -- lines 5 through 14
  [[include:SomePage#soup+5]]    -- five lines starting with #soup
  [[include:SomePage#soup#5]]    -- from #soup to line 5 (nothing
                                    included if #soup is after line 5)

...but that would be annoying, so I won't. :-)

One more comment: most of the uses you've shown are inclusive (as they
should be), such as "from #soup to #nuts", but the first line says
"everything after #soup" - shouldn't that be "everything starting with
#soup"?


Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>I'm still mildly bothered by end point inclusion for
>[[include:SomePage#soup#nuts]] (don't know why...

I don't know why either. An anchor is just an anchor - it is not
displayed, so there should be no major harm in including it.

>As a feature suggestion, perhaps [[include:SomePage#soup##nuts]]
>could include the #nuts line

I don't think I'd ever remember that. I'd think "from #soup to the next
anchor and... then #nuts too? or...? what on Earth does this do?"

-- 
Nathan Jones