[pmwiki-users] proposal for "name" and "group" wildcards

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:44:16AM +0100, Dominique Faure wrote:
> 2006/1/11, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>:
> > 5.  Negations are also allowed:
> >
> >     (:pagelist group=PmWiki*,-PmWikiFr :)
> >     (:pagelist group=PmWiki name=-PmWiki:)
> >
> Wouldn't it be more logical to have "!" as negation marker like in
> regular conditionals?

Could be.  In other places in PmWiki, the "-" has been used to mean
exclusion, such as in password fields:

   $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = array('@editors', '-mallory');

We could always say that either '!' or '-' works for exclusion.

Pm