[Pmwiki-users] Final hurdles to 2.0
Knut Alboldt
mailing
Tue Oct 19 14:29:54 CDT 2004
At 18:02 19.10.2004, you wrote:
>Hello, all --
>
>As we get closer to an official release of PmWiki 2.0, there are a
>couple of final issues that need to be examined, and if there are
>going to be any major changes then now is the time to make them.
Happy to hear that !
>I'll frame the issues as succinctly as I can.
>
>1. Directive syntax
>
>Many international users have complained that the [:directive:] syntax
>is very difficult to type and needs to be replaced. The latest proposal
>to win any support was to switch to using (:directive:) instead, and
>discussion yielded only one "sympathy vote" in favor of [:directive:].
>So, this is the "final call" for anyone to speak out in favor of
>[:directive:],
>otherwise I'm going to make the switch to (:directive:) and be done
>with it.
Sounds even better, the last days I entered a lot of directives and it was
a bit of a pain with the german keyboard. But anyway, the solutions to
change it after editing using a markup would be ok for me too.
>And I still feel that {$Page} is too ambiguous--it needs to be clearer
>somehow that what the author is getting is the page's un-group-qualified name
>and not some other aspect of the page.
>
>Some ideas:
> group:
> {$Group}, {$PageGroup}, {$GroupName}
> simple name:
> {$Name}, {$PageName}, {$SimpleName} (too long), {$Page} (too
> ambiguous),
> {$Topic}, {$Sheet}, {$Leaf}, {$Base}, {$BaseName}
> full group+name:
> {$Path}, {$PagePath}, {$FullPath}, {$FullName}, {$FullPageName},
> {$PageName}
What about (group, simple name , full group+name):
$GroupName, $PageName, $GroupPageName
or
$GroupOnly, $PageOnly, $GroupPage / $GroupAndPage
or
$Group, $Page (with the caveat mentioned above), $GroupPage
I would not prefer any $Path - that reminds too much on directory-values
Knut
btw: $SimpleName is as long as $GroupName, isn't it ;-)
More information about the pmwiki-users
mailing list