[pmwiki-users] display older page versions

[Daniel Roesler]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Peter Bowers <pbowers at pobox.com> wrote:
> I've been working on a recipe to list page revisions and as I was
> doing that came across a way to display the older versions, but I
> don't want to spend a lot of time on it if you're already working on
> it...

Yes, I have a recipe almost ready for displaying previous revisions. I
have been working on some patches on the developers list.

http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cb11bec220903012158v2e612d36uf55eaceec6cdd132%40mail.gmail.com%3e

Basically, I am adding an action that renders a page with the markup
at the time specified. For example,
http://pm.com/wiki/Main/Home?action=diffview&time=1234567890 will
generate a rendering at that time. This action only changes the markup
to that particular page (i.e. included pages are not also reverted to
their time; this could be a feature added in a subsequent verison).

I have NOT started on a comparison section for the history preview,
but I suspect it would look something like
http://pm.com/wiki/Main/Home?action=diffview&time=1234567890:2234567890,
where a colon separates the two timestamps to be compared. I suspect
the first version of this would be a simple line comparison/highlight,
but later versions could be a word-by-word comarison.

I'm still unclear on how this could be integrated into the existing
history page (comparison radio buttons, etc.), but the action needs to
be developed first. I will post the first version early next week
(possibly with a comparison option).

Avast!
Daniel Roesler
diafygi at gmail.com

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Peter Bowers <pbowers at pobox.com> wrote:
> Are you still working on this, Daniel?
>
> I've been working on a recipe to list page revisions and as I was
> doing that came across a way to display the older versions, but I
> don't want to spend a lot of time on it if you're already working on
> it...
>
> -Peter
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Roesler <diafygi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM,  <pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com> wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:57:05 +0100
>>> From: noskule <noskule at gmx.net>
>>> Subject: [pmwiki-users] display older page versions
>>> To: PmWiki Users <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
>>> Message-ID: <49B663A1.1080309 at gmx.net>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
>>>
>>> hi list
>>> I have two questions about page history:
>>>
>>> * Is it somehow possible to display an older version of a wikipage with
>>> the normal html mode rather than in diff mode?
>>> * Does someone know of a way to highlight the last changes of a page by
>>> browsing the page rather than in diff mode?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any hints
>>> nos
>>
>> This topic has come up several times before:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/28573
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/34775
>>
>> And, unfortunately, that feature is not yet possible. I have
>> volunteered to write a patch for the next version. However, I don't
>> think it was ever decided if referenced pages ( (:include:),
>> (:pagelist:), etc.) would display the results from the previous time
>> as well. It has a PITS report:
>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00141
>>
>> Here's my post about adding features to the history page:
>> http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-devel/2009-March/001535.html
>>
>> Avast!
>> Daniel Roesler
>> diafygi at gmail.com
>>
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