[pmwiki-users] Directives to PTVs (was 2.2.0: add Site.SiteHeader...)

[Simon]

I'd support (in 2.3?) the wider use of Page Text Variables (PTVs)
and the deprecation of directives and markup such as
[[!Category]]
(:keywords
(:description
(:title
etc

Simon
http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageDirectives

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> If I had much of PmWiki to do over again (i.e., didn't have
> to worry about breaking existing sites and recipes), then
> many of the current directives would indeed become page text 
> variables... but I'm not sure we're ready for that sort of 
> migration, unless we somehow declare that the existing 
> (:nogroupheader:) directive is itself a page text variable 
> of some sort.  Even then I fear that having several
> extremely-similar-but-slightly-different ways of achieving
> mostly-similar-but-slightly-different results will just end
> up confusing everyone.
>
> Pm
>