a year ago in September 2007.
-- [[madduck]]
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+> I can't reproduce this problem. When I try, the generated
+> `recentchanges/change_$sha1._change` file has the diff properly escaped,
+> so that the map is not expanded at all.
+>
+> I also tried de-escaping that, and still failed to reproduce any crash.
+> The bogus pagespec simply expands to nothing. The line directly after the
+> line you quoted checks for syntax errors in the pagespec translation
+> eval and seems to be working fine:
+>
+> joey@kodama:~>perl -e 'use IkiWiki; my
+> $sub=IkiWiki::pagespec_translate("link(tag/<TMPL_VAR name>) and !papers/*"); print "caught failure:".$@'
+> caught failure:syntax error at (eval 14) line 1, near "|| &&"
+>
+> Based on your line numbers, you are not running a current version of
+> ikiwiki. (Doesn't quite seem to be version 2.53.x either) Try with a current
+> version, and see if you can send me a source tree that can reproduce the
+> problem? --[[Joey]]