[pmwiki-users] the amazing disappearing recent changes

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:01:37PM +1200, Robin wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 18:22, Neil Herber wrote:
> > and make some edits of my own. I return to RecentChanges and find my
> > changes noted, but the previous author's change record wiped out! The
> > changes are still there, it is just the record on RecentChanges that is
> > gone.
> As I understand it, that's by design. It's to show you the last edit to 
> the page so you quickly know what's changed recently, rather than to keep 
> a log of all changes. I imagine that Pm has a magic incantation to turn 
> that off if you'd like :)

Yes, it's by design.  By default, RecentChanges only shows the last 
change to each page, not every change.

And yes, there's a magic incantation to show every change.  :-)
Set $RecentChangesFmt as:

$RecentChangesFmt = array(
  '$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges' =>
    '* [[$Group.$Name]] . . . $CurrentTime  $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]',
  '$Group.RecentChanges' =>    
    '* [[$Group/$Name]] . . . $CurrentTime  $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]');

The above lines are exactly the same as the default, except the two
consecutive spaces have been moved to be between $CurrentTime and $[by]
instead of just after the name.  With this change, the old entries
won't be removed from RecentChanges when a page is saved.

Pm