[pmwiki-users] Re: $FmtV and $FmtP

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:51:16AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> I've added the explanation of $FmtV and $FmtP to this page
> 
> 	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/OtherVariables	
> 
> and added the explanation of FmtPageName to this page
> 
> 	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Functions
> 
> Does that seem reasonable to you?

Looks good to me for now!

> PS. Is the (:varindex:) documented somewhere? The entry on the page
> MarkupMasterIndex simply points to PmWiki.Directives, but I can't find
> anything there...

Not at the moment.  So many things to document......  :-|

> Something like (:varindex:) together with (:functionindex:) would be
> perfect for documenting small software projects - assuming that the names 
> of functions are linked just as variables are linked today. 

Variables currently auto-link based on $WikiWord; I've been thinking
that WikiWord(...) (with the parens) ought to automatically link somewhere
as well.  And ideally we'd eliminate the WikiWord requirement somehow,
but I haven't gotten that far yet.

> It would also 
> be necessary to have the set of variables/functions be specific to the 
> current group - you don't want PmWiki-variables to become mixed up with 
> the variables in your software project.

This is already possible -- the source for the variables is controlled
by the $VarPagesFmt variable.  Changing this would result in a different
source for variable (and presumably function) definitions.

Pm