[pmwiki-users] Dur: How to find all the pages which link TO a page?

DaveG pmwiki at solidgone.com
Tue Sep 13 17:41:55 CDT 2005


I agree: Show (or Display) indicate the intent of the action.

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:59:13AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
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>>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:49:01AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
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>>>Continuing with the assumption that they are, it would seem that the
>>>similarity between the two is enough that any mnemonic value is
>>>decreased significantly. Perhaps they should be "linkto" and "list"?
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>>Possibly.  I chose "link=" because that's Google's mnemonic for
>>finding pages that link to another one.  And "list=" is the option
>>that bugs me more...
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>Well that's plenty good reason to keep "link" the way it is.
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>>"list=" allows the resulting list of pages to be filtered based on
>>a set of patterns defined in configuration files by the wikiadministrator.  
>>Examples:
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>>   list=all            shows all pages
>>   list=normal         show all "normal" pages; i.e., excluding
>>                       *.RecentChanges, *.AllRecentChanges, Site.*,
>>                       *.GroupHeader, *.GroupFooter, etc.
>>   list=calendar       show all pages with a name in "yyyy-dd-mm" format
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>>I'm all in favor of having another name for this parameter if we 
>>can come up with a better one.
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>How about "filter" or "show".  Here they are in context:
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>(:pagelist show=all:)
>(:pagelist filter=all:)
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>Hmm. Filter seems to have the opposite connotation than I was thinking.
>It feels like I'd be getting the chaff rather than the wheat.  But
>"show" seems okay.
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>-Scott
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